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  • Connecting the Dots: Gender Equality and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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    Dot-Mom  //  New Security Broadcast  //  March 15, 2023  //  By Sarah B. Barnes
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    In today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, Sarah Barnes, Project Director for the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative met with Bridget Kelly, Director of Research for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at Population Institute to discuss the launch of Population Institute’s new report: Connecting the Dots, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights as Prerequisites for Global Gender Equality and Empowerment. On the episode Kelly, lead author of the Connecting the Dots report, shares findings from the report on the importance of the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) agenda, how SRHR leads to gender equality, the power of and need for increased U.S. investment, and policy recommendations to fully realize the SRHR agenda and improve gender equality and empowerment.

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  • Sexual and Reproductive Justice: A Vehicle in Progress

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    Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  March 8, 2023  //  By Maanasa Chitti
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    The pace of change towards advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights is piecemeal and far too slow, said Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), at a recent panel hosted by The Columbia University Global Health Justice & Governance Program (GHJG), in partnership with UNFPA, Columbia World Projects, and the Ford Foundation. The event launched the November 2022 report, Sexual and reproductive justice as the vehicle to deliver the Nairobi Summit commitments, published by the High-Level Commission on the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 Follow-up.

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  • Planning, Pleasure, and Progress: How ICFP 2022 Advanced the Family Planning Dialogue

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    Dot-Mom  //  February 15, 2023  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan
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    The sixth International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) held in Pattaya, Thailand in November 2022 offered an important reason for celebration: tens of millions more people are using a modern method of family planning now than were doing so when the first ICFP was held in London ten years ago. How has this happened? One key reason is that governments, corporations, non-governmental organizations, and donors globally are taking steps to advance reproductive freedom through providing voluntary family planning.

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  • Top 5 Dot-Mom Guest Contributor Posts in 2022

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    Dot-Mom  //  What You Are Reading  //  January 18, 2023  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan
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    In 2022, the Dot-Mom column published several pieces from expert guest authors from the greater maternal and reproductive health community. In our top read guest contributor piece of the year, Susie Jolly examined the role of colonialism in sexuality education globally. Jolly highlighted examples where sexual health knowledge is built on unethical medical research carried out on racialized people, such as the study of untreated syphilis among Black men in the United States. Sexuality educators, especially those placed in the Global North, have a responsibility to work to decolonize their work. Jolly suggests supporting resources led by marginalized people, critically examining colonialism’s influence in the understanding of sexuality, and shifting the dynamics of who decides on content to lend more weight to non-Western expertise and young people learning from their own experiences.

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  • Global Population Growth is an Opportunity to Invest in People

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    Dot-Mom  //  December 7, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    Just in the last minute, 169 more people were born on planet Earth, and everyday more than a quarter of a million are added to that total. John Milewski, Moderator of Wilson Center NOW, laid out these astonishing facts at the beginning of a Wilson Center NOW conversation on the implications of global population growth with Wilson Center Fellow Jennifer Sciubba on November 14— the eve of the historic day when the number of people on the planet officially surpassed 8 billion. 

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  • An Inextricable Link: Maternal and Newborn Health and Climate Change

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    Dot-Mom  //  November 16, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    “The effects of climate change can begin in the womb,” said Sarah Barnes, the Project Director of the Maternal Health Initiative at the Wilson Center at a recent event on the impact of climate change on maternal and newborn health outcomes, hosted by the Wilson Center and UNFPA. It is a connection that “[makes] it imperative that climate change and maternal and newborn health leaders work together to tackle climate change and improve maternal and newborn health outcomes, globally.”

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  • Climate Change, Population, and the Shape of the Future

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    From the Wilson Center  //  November 15, 2022  //  By Harriet Alice Taberner & Richard Byrne
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    As the world’s attention has turned in November 2022 to the UN COP 27 climate change conference, another important global milestone is also drawing attention. Today, November 15, 2022, the global population is predicted to reach 8 billion. By 2050, it will be 9.7 billion.

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  • Meeting Africa’s Demographic Challenge

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 14, 2022  //  By Phillip Carter III & Stephen Schwartz
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    Often cast into the backwaters of U.S. foreign policy, sub-Saharan Africa now looms large as the Biden Administration grapples with a wide range of global challenges. President Biden will soon host the upcoming Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington, that acknowledges the U.S. government must do much more in Africa in order to advance U.S. interests and global prosperity.

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