The word for these horrendous murders is femicide, death by misogyny. The U.S does not keep accurate statistics of femicide. If it did, the numbers would terrify.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

🚨 The Trump administration is planning to expand the global gag rule to include US NGOs, UN organisations and foreign governments.

"This would be an insidious encroachment on sovereignty, pressuring governments to change their laws." — Beth Schlachter, MSI Senior Director of US External Relations

🚨 On 2 October 2025, several members of the @globalsumudflotilla were kidnapped by Israel following an illegal interception of the flotilla boats in international waters.

WOOOHOOOO, nails it

I’ve just started reading this and it’s riveting (not least because it reaffirms and corroborates so much of what I’ve seen working in gender and global health over the past 25 years). don’t sleep on this.

At #HRC60 Carrie Shelver, coordinator of the SRI Geneva office, presented via video a statement recorded earlier this week. Carrie is currently with the Waves of Freedom delegation of the Global Sumud Flotilla. As of this morning, her vessel, the Wahoo, has been assumed to have been intercepted.

I had heard references to bad behavior at the Ryder Cup but couldn't find any details. This is absolutely shocking and sickening. But in a moment when some men are openly discussing stripping us of our rights and actively blaming us for the "state of the world" we're likely to see more of it.

Honestly terrifying.

"When I speak about [birth rates]," somebody always asks "'Should we stop women from going to college? Should we discourage them, disincentivize them?'" says Pakaluk. "I'm alarmed at hearing, more and more, this kind of argument that we should just turn back the clock" reason.com/2025/09/22/m...

It's so senseless. And we know what we need to do to stop this kind of violence. And like so many other things that would actually benefit the health and wellbeing of all of us, this country just refuses to do it.

I left the church years ago, but I was raised Mormon and most of my family are still active. I know what it's like to sit in those pews with my family around me. I can't imagine the horror of being attacked there. My heart breaks for that community and every community torn apart by gun violence.

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A deal to allow generic versions of HIV-prevention shots in lower income countries is fabulous news. Just $40/year (vs $28K in the US)

Great news, but as usual, middle-income nations with high poverty & lots of HIV are left out.

By @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
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So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect.

So profoundly reluctantly.

But, good lord have they earned it.

Disappointed to learn that it turns out Congress was merely an advisory body all along.

I don't even know what it says about a country that completely unnecessarily makes medicines that people rely on MORE expensive.

And in the context of NCDs, which account for 2 out of 3 deaths among women annually, neglecting gender-related differences in access to prevention, diagnosis and treatment is pure folly.

The reality is that sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equality are essential if we want strong, healthy, functioning societies. Failing to provide women and girls with the health services they need or depriving them of education and employment, hurts everyone.

Sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equality have become political footballs at the UN and are used cynically by the US and other countries to undermine political agreements and action on a range of things--from health to development broadly.

Maybe one or two other countries that are under the thumb of the US, like Israel and Argentina, will join them. But the world usually doesn't take kindly to these kinds of last minute efforts to scuttle consensus.

I've worked on global-level political negotiations on health, gender equality, and development for decades. I can tell you that the political declaration on NCDs will be adopted by the General Assembly, despite US objections. There will be a vote. The US will be isolated, badly.

It’s one thing to withdraw from global health

It’s another thing to block other nations from global initiatives and goals

NO ONE COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE SO MUCH POWER!!!

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which is why I told the New York Times the State Department support for an already announced target of 2 million people was a whimper rather than the roar that is needed. To fix that, Congress must decide separation of powers is real—lives are on the line

2) Vought’s unlawful chokehold on PEPFAR’s funds will undermine roll out of this revolutionary product, after already sabotaging oral PrEP programs since January