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  • In Fight to Stop the Spread of Female Genital Mutilation, Midwives Are Crucial

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  December 23, 2015  //  By Francesca Cameron
    FGM_Ethiopia

    Aissata M.B. Camara grew up in an educated, upper income household in Guinea, West Africa. One morning, she woke up to singing outside her window and knew they were coming. Many in her community thought that she was unclean and would grow up to be promiscuous if she wasn’t cut. She would be unmarriageable. While her family and community members held her down, she realized, “my body no longer belonged to me.” [Video Below]

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  • 8 Takeaways From the Paris Climate Change Conference

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    From the Wilson Center  //  December 18, 2015  //  By Meaghan Parker

    The nations of the world may have finally solved the thorniest problem in international relations and now we need to figure out practical solutions, said a panel of experts at the Wilson Center December 16.

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  • What Explains the United States’ Dismal Maternal Mortality Rates?

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  December 17, 2015  //  By Anna Bella Korbatov
    Monica Simpson

    On the world stage, the United States is an outlier for many reasons, some good, some bad. Few are more alarming, however, than maternal health. Despite spending two and half times more per person on health than the OECD average, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. – the number of women who die during or as a result of childbirth and pregnancy – increased from 12 to 14 deaths per 100,000 live births from 1990 to 2015, putting the United States at 46th in the world. [Video Below]

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  • Priyali Sur, Foreign Policy

    South Asian Environmental Migrants Pushed to Back of Line in Refugee Flood

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    November 26, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
    refugee camp Germany

    The original version of this article, by Priyali Sur, appeared on Foreign Policy.

    The dark eyes and hair of the Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and Afghans almost blend with the other migrants’. The brown skin tones are also not giveaways, but ask them where they come from, and you notice the hesitation – trying hard to blend into the crowd of Syrian migrants at Europe’s border crossings, afraid of being spotted and sent back.

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  • Long in the Background, Population Becoming a Bigger Issue at Climate Change Discussions

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 10, 2015  //  By Robert Engelman
    Makoko Nigeria

    As most of the world’s governments are puzzling out what they can offer to combat global climate change, a sensitive but critical aspect of the problem is coming into clearer focus: population. The word appears 20 times in a new 66-page synthesis of country pledges to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Secretariat. And those are the mentions of population in the context of size or growth, not the word’s more frequent use as a synonym for “people.”

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  • Ken Conca, The Guardian

    A Healthy Environment Is a Human Right

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    October 6, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Ken Conca, appeared on The Guardian.

    For all its flaws, the United Nations remains the only plausible forum for engaging broad global challenges like sustainable development. The most important environmental achievements of the past 40 years – the rise of environmental awareness, the birth of key ideas such as sustainability or the common heritage of humanity and the most important global treaties for environmental protection – all bear the UN stamp in one way or another. We could have added environmental human rights to that legacy last month, but we failed.

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