The Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act seeks to bring America to the front lines of the struggle for global reproductive justice.
Author: Michelle Chen
Michelle Chen is a contributing editor at In These Times and associate editor at CultureStrike. She is also a coproducer of the Asia Pacific Forum radio show and studies history at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Why Aren’t Girls in School?
In most countries, barriers of all kinds still stand between girls and school, blocking young women from the most basic form of social advancement.
Housing Crisis Lingers in New Orleans
While the city’s recovery hobbles forward after Hurricane Katrina’s punishing blows, a deep affordable housing crisis continues to hold back impoverished mothers
Women in Detention Not Protected From Sexual Abuse
Building on the latest charges of sexual abuse to come out of T. Don Hutto detention center in Texas (which I blogged about here), Human Rights Watch has issued a scathing indictment of Homeland Security’s utter failure to protect women from abuse and harassment in detention. Since reports of sexual abuse at Hutto surfaced earlier […]
It’s Not Just Bullets Scarring Chicago Public Housing Residents
On Tuesday, 8-year-old Tanaja Stokes got caught in a storm of gunfire as she jumped rope outdoors on Chicago’s South Side. It was a typical crime story, but it was also an example of a sick kind of child mortality, one that doesn’t often come to mind when contemplating pool accidents, asthma attacks, and other […]
Study: “Marriage Promotion” in Welfare Doesn’t Work
Welfare reform’s marriage promotion programs have not only had little impact on the plight of poor families, looks like they’ve also done a pretty lousy job of pressing impoverished couples into the right-wing mold of “family values.” Mathematica Policy Research evaluated Building Strong Families, a flagship marriage-focused program operating in several states, and concluded that it’s […]