Here’s what we’ve been checking out online this week:
The Guttmacher Institute got a lot of press for their new study which concludes that abortion and unintended pregnancy decline worldwide as contraceptive use increases
Uruguay has approved a bill that will soon allow transsexuals to legally change their name and gender
The United States Mission to the United Nations posted its Statement on the Commemoration of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development
The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health just celebrated its Quinceañera – congrats!
Here’s what we’ve been up to on Akimbo:
Catholic, Pro-Choice, and Complicated is about Catholics for Choice and their recent report, “Catholic Voters’ Views on Health Care Reform and Reproductive Health Care Services”
The Alliance for Youth Movements Summit is happening right now in Mexico City. But if you aren’t in Mexico City and have a good internet connection, check out the proceedings via webcast
Akimbo participated in Blog Action Day this week, an event that garnered 31,000 posts from 155 countries. Read our post, Population, Climate Change, and Human Rights
We got really excited about the the UK Department for International Development’s (DFID) updated policy on safe and unsafe abortion
And last but not least, we congratulated our colleague from Brazil, Maria Lucia Lopes de Oliveira, who just won the 2009 Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF) Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life
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