Archive for category Humanitarian Aid
Our local Liberal candidate on maternal health
Posted by sitemaster in Foreign Policy, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Liberals, Women's Rights on May 19, 2010
For the Harper Conservatives, it seems possible to talk about maternal health care without mentioning the word abortion. Read on »
Planned Parenthood gets silent treatment from Ottawa
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 14, 2010
By Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Toronto Star, May 13, 2010
One of the world’s biggest health-care providers for vulnerable women appears to have fallen victim to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s zero tolerance policy on abortion.
In London, International Planned Parenthood Federation is waiting for a call from Canada that will preserve life-saving programs that help 31 million women and children. Read on »
Lancet medical journal slams Canada, Stephen Harper on abortion
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 7, 2010
By Mary Vallis, The National Post, May 7, 2010
One of the world’s leading medical journals is slamming Stephen Harper’s Conservative government’s “conscious decision” not to support groups that undertake abortions in developing countries. Read on »
Tory senator drops F-bomb on abortion debate
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 4, 2010
By Tobi Cohen, Canwest News Service, as published in The Ottawa Citizen, May 4, 2010
OTTAWA — The Liberals are seeking an apology from the government after a Conservative senator told international development advocates Monday to “shut the f— up” on the issue of making abortion part of Canada’s foreign maternal-health strategy. Read on »
Harper government backs away from birth control
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on March 17, 2010
Susan Delacourt, Ottawa Bureau, The Toronto Star, March 17, 2010
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government appears to have decided that birth control is not part of its plan to help improve the lives of women and children in developing countries. Read on »
Harper ‘recycling’ money in Haiti
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Humanitarian Aid on February 23, 2010
By STEPHEN MAHER, Ottawa Bureau of the Chronicle-Herald, Feb 23
OTTAWA — Politicians and NGOs have begun to wrangle over the nature of Canada’s aid commitment to Haiti, with the Liberals complaining that the government is recycling money, and one aid group worrying that shifting money to Haiti could shortchange other areas of the world. Read on »
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