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Why aid workers need protection
Oped, Pio Smith, Published on 20/08/2025
» From flood-hit villages in Nepal to conflict-affected areas in Myanmar, midwives, doctors and community responders save lives. These humanitarians are the first to arrive and the last to leave when a crisis strikes. They work in conflict zones, climate disaster areas and displacement camps, often with scarce resources and under constant threat of violence.
Rethink condom access in schools
Editorial, Published on 13/07/2025
» An initiative to give away free condoms in schools has always been a flashpoint for controversy, igniting fervent debate across society.
Pope Francis the shepherd on the animal kingdom
Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 07/05/2025
» When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in 2013, many liberals had high expectations. Would priests be allowed to marry? Or, more radical still, perhaps he would open a path for women to be ordained? There were even some hints that he might recognise same-sex unions.
Data access key to health reforms
Oped, Pio Smith, Published on 16/07/2024
» Thirty years ago, maternal mortality rates were very rough estimates. Today, data and technology allow us to more accurately measure women's access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, including reductions in maternal mortality, uptake of contraception, and progress toward gender equality. We can now measure success better than ever before.
Demography 'key' for Asia-Pacific
News, Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Natalia Kanem, Published on 13/11/2023
» Asia and the Pacific is an economic powerhouse, fuelled by its vibrant and diverse population. Comprising 60% of the world's population, this region is bursting with both a wealth of experience and untapped potential. Exciting advancements have been made here, in education; health care, including sexual and reproductive health; jobs, and sustainable development. Yet there is a catch: this progress has not been evenly distributed. In fact, inequity pervades the region, especially within individual countries.
Will the Church finally rethink contraception?
Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 09/03/2023
» Could the Roman Catholic Church be ready to reconsider its prohibition of the use of contraception? The fact that prominent Catholic conservatives have felt the need to speak out against such a possibility gives some grounds for thinking that, within the Church itself, and under the protection of Pope Francis, a movement for change is underway.
Let's save gender equality gains
Oped, Khadyja Sy and Lindsay Glassco, Published on 18/08/2022
» Sudanese protester Alaa Salah became a symbol of her country's revolution after standing atop a car, dressed in white, and singing to her fellow demonstrators. Ugandan climate-justice activist Vanessa Nakate went from protesting alone at the gates of her country's parliament to demanding action from world leaders at the United Nations. Senegalese activist Oumou Kalsoum Diophas harnessed digital tools to start taboo-breaking conversations about intimate health, sexuality, contraception, and period poverty.
If Roe goes, the end is nigh for women's rights
Oped, Antara Haldar, Published on 11/06/2022
» It used to be that who you were at birth defined who you were for the rest of your life: slave or owner, emperor or subject, aristocrat or serf, man or woman, black or white. But, over time, moral revolutions have chipped away at the idea that we simply inherit our identities.
The crisis of unintended pregnancy
News, Bjorn Andersson, Published on 11/04/2022
» Mother and daughter, Liza and Agnes, living in a small seaside community of St Bernard in the Philippines, recalled the day Super Typhoon Rai made landfall. When I visited them, they told me that when the typhoon hit, the wind sounded like a thousand horses thundering through the community and ripping houses and families violently apart, destroying thousands of lives, and disrupting access to critical health services.
CCP's record on economy mixed
Oped, Nancy Qian, Published on 07/07/2021
» 'Over the past hundred years, the [Communist Party of China] has united and led the Chinese people in writing the most magnificent chapter in the millennia-long history of the Chinese nation," President Xi Jinping declared at the CCP's centennial celebration, in a speech that emphasised the party's role in driving China's success, including its economic rise. But the CCP's economic record is actually mixed, and even those who recognise this often overlook that its successes and failures stem from the same economic fundamentals.