Latest Perspectives
A selection of blogs from across the Federation
United States
An ode to medication abortion
On this International Safe Abortion Day, we celebrate mifepristone and misoprostol: the tiny tablets making abortion safer and more accessible to women around the world.
31 October 2021
Growing up in typhoon-prone, archipelagic Philippines, I have no shortage of mental images to associate with climate change and its crushing impacts on people’s lives and livelihood.
25 October 2021
This year has thrown crisis after crisis at a world already struggling with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. From the escalation of violence in Gaza to the ongoing civil war in Tigray, and the rapid fall of Afghanistan just a few weeks ago, this turbulent year has seen subsequent crises in a world already struggling with the impacts of the pandemic.
11 October 2021
The climate crisis is affecting everyone, but there is no doubt that some communities and groups of people are being more impacted than others.
16 October 2024
Abortion is discussed in the media as a political issue, but we hear less from people who have actually had abortions and how it is linked to sexuality and desire.
16 October 2024
In Poland, a country held ransom by religious fanatics, people don’t want to see more women suffer from denied abortion care.
16 October 2024
In Malawi – where almost half of the population lives below the poverty line and 25 in every 100 people live in extreme poverty – only a few girls and women can afford sanitary pads.