Taking Family Planning to the Next Level
The London Summit on Family Planning last week marked a real victory for women with donors making significant financial commitments to expanding family planning to some of the most impoverished women and girls in the world.
Afghanistans draft media law slowed, but not stopped
For now, the Afghan government's apparent attempt at railroading through a less-than-media-friendly new Mass Media Law without consultation seems to have been sidelined, though not derailed. On Sunday in Kabul, representatives of the Ministry of Information and Culture received recommendations from civil society workers and journalists, including some from the provinces, which were drawn up at a June 27 meeting organized by Internews's Nai Media Institute in Afghanistan.