“Trump’s retrenchment from European multilateralism must be viewed from the context of his America First ideology,” said Kane. This ideology is understood as isolationist but really, what Trump and his allies want to do is remove themselves from the responsibility that comes with global governance

Want to know more about the incoming Chilean president’s close ties to the int’l far right? Check out Ipas’s report on the Political Network for Values.

UN corporate capture. www.devex.com/news/ikea-ch...

“The United States (US) aims to compel countries that receive its aid to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria to share all information about “pathogens with epidemic potential” in exchange.” healthpolicy-watch.news/exclusive-us...

As Democratic Institutions Erode, Women See a Loss of Rights www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202... US to destroy almost $10m in contraceptives rather than send abroad for women in need – The Irish Times

share.google/RCaelJHeJZAs... This premise is BS. GGR doesn’t address contraceptives. “The DOS is destroying the products to comply with …Trump’s EO to reinstate the Mexico City Policy.”

Wendy Via to WIRED, “There is no hiding from the fact that the ultimate goal of ‘remigration’ is purely about ethnic cleansing. It is a terrible day for our country when ‘remigration’ proponents are crediting the US and Trump's administration for normalizing the term.” www.wired.com/story/trump-...

RE: GPAHE, “Remigration is rooted in the thoroughly de-bunked white supremacist ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory, which purports a planned ‘replacement’ of white people by politicians and other ‘elites.’ Jews are often targeted as driving this ‘plan.’” www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-depa...

Is Pete Hegseth breaking the law?

Even “things we can all agree are bad, such as female genital cutting, are now up for debate again”, notes Gillian Kane of Ipas, an American group that campaigns for safe abortion and contraception. nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

“A newly released report by Ipas…offers damning insight into the architecture of this anti-rights movement. The report traces the funding, partnerships, and strategic playbook behind the Nairobi conference and similar gatherings across the continent. www.mambaonline.com/2025/05/16/f...

“Para o público LGBTQIA+ brasileiro que acompanha essas questões, é fundamental entender que a luta por direitos é global e que o apoio internacional à diversidade e à justiça social pode fazer a diferença para quem enfrenta um cenário de opressão.” acapa.com.br/grupos-ultra...

“The event was dominated by figures from the US right-wing and Christian anti-gender and anti-rights movement, and specifically targeted the sexual, gender and reproductive rights of women and LGBTIQ+ people.” www.mambaonline.com/2025/05/17/r...

“Ultra-conservative groups from the US and Europe are attending a “family values” conference in Kenya this week – one of several planned in Africa this year – in what activists are describing as a “direct attack” on LGBT and women’s rights.” www.france24.com/en/africa/20...

“This is especially visible in the attacks… on women’s access to reproductive care. Maternity wards have been shut down, neonatal care all but wiped out, and literally embryos at a fertility clinic destroyed by the thousands…To destroy reproductive capacity is to erase the future of a people.”

Delighted to be one of the contributors to this important report. "Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

BREAKING: A federal court ordered Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit should proceed in New Jersey instead of Louisiana, 1,500 miles from his family. This is an important step towards justice.

Dangerous and immoral: "The United States is ending its financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting nearly 50 million women off from access to contraception." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

This is what fascism looks like, folks

This is depraved behavior

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

A video shared with GBH News shows Ozturk walking as several people in plain clothes with their faces covered walk nearby. A man in a hoodie approaches her, then grabs her wrists. Ozturk screams, then asks “Can I call the police?” before being told “We’re the police.” @gbhnews.bsky.social

It's official, Poland signs off the Geneva Consensus Declaration. x.com/ValerieHuber...

Canada is also shrinking its government, starting with its Minister for Women and Gender Equality. www.actioncanadashr.org/news/2025-03...

Uganda’s LGBTQ population was already struggling to cope with the fallout of a harsh anti-gay law when the disruption of U.S. aid put people at even greater risk. Vital medical supplies remain scarce, and members of LGBTQ groups increasingly report feeling depressed or suicidal.

“It's multilateral McCarthyism." "The move marks an extraordinary intrusion into the internal workings of the U.N. agencies, which are required by the U.N. Charter to act independently of member states." www.devex.com/news/trump-s...

DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

USAID acting like they’re evacuating Hanoi.

I've written for @zammagazine.bsky.social on how the Dutch Henk-Jan Van Schothorst and his religiously conservative organisation help to export anti-rights (and anti-LGBTQ) legislation across the African continent: www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...

Female is on the list. Male is not. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The US was the sole UN member state to vote NO on a resolution declaring an International Day of Hope

"A FIV divide há tempos o movimento anti-aborto, porque de um lado há os católicos, que veem os embriões criados no processo de fertilização como fetos que teriam status legal, e os pró-natalistas que querem aumentar taxas de natalidade", diz Gillian Kane. www1.folha.uol.com.br/equilibrioes...

CU, one of the worst offenders, completely rolled over and this admin still comes after them. When will people/institutions etc understand they’re coming after you, no matter how much you submit. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...

Possible criminal referrals for USAID grantees, completely outrageous. thehill.com/policy/inter...

Read the list. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

“For the convenience of the US government.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The judiciary isn’t saving us.

This is the plan: gut USAID and turn it into a for-profit. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...

*Permanent* visa bans.

NL foreign aid taking its cues from MAGA world. nltimes.nl/2025/02/20/d...

@ipas.org has been working to protect and expand access to abortion and contraception for over a half a century. We’re not stopping anytime soon. Learn more at www.ipas.org

“This isn’t sex education. This is a disinformation campaign designed to brainwash young children and force an out-of-touch and wildly unpopular regressive and false reproductive agenda in the public education system, using anti-abortion, anti-science propaganda .” www.newscenter1.tv/news/south-d...

US rejoins the Geneva Consensus Declaration. www.theiwh.org/statement-by... I called this last April. inthesetimes.com/article/proj...

Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.