The Trump Global Gag Rule: An Attack on U.S. Family Planning and Global Health Aid

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The Trump Global Gag Rule: An Attack on U.S. Family Planning and Global Health Aid 

By Ann Starrs

In a Comment published in The Lancet, Guttmacher President and CEO Ann M. Starrs discusses the many harms of the global gag rule, a policy imposed by President Trump that will disrupt U.S. international family planning programs as well as U.S. global health aid more broadly.

The article is excerpted below and the full Comment is available at The Lancet (with citations and free of charge): “The Trump global gag rule: an attack on U.S. family planning and global health aid.”...

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HLPF CM – 31 January 2017

 A meeting of the HLPF Co-ordinating Mechanism (CM) was held on Tuesday 31 January 2017. Below are notes on the issues that were discussed including the proposed Expert Group Meeting of Major Groups and other Stakeholders (MGoS), the ECOSOC President’s Retreat and the up-coming meeting with him. A matter of concern are issues related to CSO participation in the HLPF and also on invitations to informal meetings such as the Retreat...

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Report Launch: Youth Solutions Report

On Jan. 31, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network - Youth will be launching its Youth Solutions Report at the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum in New York, co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the UN.

This first edition report will feature 50 innovative youth solutions and ideas working to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), along with...

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Call for Nominations for UN Public Service Awards (deadline 28 February 2017)

Message on behalf of DESA Division for Public Administration and Development Management:

Dear Colleagues, 

The United Nations has launched a call for nominations for the 2017 United Nations Public Service Awards (UNPSA) which the UN Secretary-General gives to reward innovation and excellence in public services in support of the realisation of the SDGs.  The Awards is open to all public organizations -- national and local governments and public-private partnerships for delivering services. Non-Governmental Organizations are invited to nominate initiatives for the Awards...

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World Data Forum Follow-up

An invitation has been extended to join the Virtual UN World Data Forum in this letter from the UN Statistics Division:

Dear Participants of the first UN World Data Forum

We are pleased to announce the launch today of the "Virtual UN World Data Forum" at to…

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Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data

In the closing session of the World Data Forum, the Cape Town Global Action Plan CTGAP) for Sustainable Development was introduced. Prepared by the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (HLG-PCCB), it will be submitted for endorsement to the March 2017 session of the UN Statistical Commission (UNSC)…

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Interactive Dialogue with UN President of the General Assembly, HE Peter Thomson – Wednesday 25 Jan, 11am, UNHQ

Please join the interactive dialogue with the President of the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly

Upon taking his oath of office in September 2016, HE Peter Thomson made a firm commitment to push forward meaningful progress in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). During this session, he will discuss these efforts as well as reform processes regarding revitalization of the UN…

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CSO meeting with ECOSOC President 14 February 2017

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For latest information on meeting with the President of ECOSOC on 14 February 2017:

Dear all,

The meeting with the President of ECOSOC that was announced in previous emails will take place on Tuesday, 14 February at 10 am. The meeting will be held on the 27th floor of the UN Secretariat Building. An access through WEBEX for those who are not based in New York will be provided...

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Civil society speakers selected for opening session and interactive panel discussion

At the request of the Office of the President of the General Assembly (OPGA), UN-NGLS facilitated a process to identify two civil society speakers for the 24 January 2017 High-level Dialogue on "Building Sustainable Peace for All: Synergies between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustaining Peace Agenda," taking place at UN Headquarters in New York. UN-NGLS facilitated a Civil Society Selection Committee to review applications for the speaking roles and create a regionally and gender balanced short-list of candidates for the President of the General Assembly to consider...

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World Data Forum: first plenary session, 16 January 2017

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offers a new lens for looking at the world and the challenges that we are facing. Leaving no one behind provides a commitment that signals a paradigm shift in the development agenda.

The first plenary session provided an opportunity for two panel sessions on harnessing the power of data for sustainable development. the first laid the ground work on the theme, including the changing data landscape and the second looked at specific objectives to get out of Forum. Presentations included the following:...

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