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	<title>Turtle Bay and Beyond - International Law, Policy, and Institutions</title>
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		<title>Ban in Vogue</title>
		<link>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/human-rights/ban-in-vogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ban Ki-Moon made the cover of a fashion magazine. In an issue dedicated to “Rebranding Africa,” the Italian edition of Vogue magazine profiles the UN Secretary General in an interview conducted by the editor that could be mistaken for a high-school journalism paper. &#160; Pundits speculate that Vogue focused on Africa in a scramble to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Court of Human Rights: a significant victory for the freedom of the Church</title>
		<link>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/council-of-europe/european-court-of-human-rights-a-significant-victory-for-the-freedom-of-the-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grégor Puppinck, Ph.D</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Council of Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[International Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strasbourg, 15 May 2012 – Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights published a judgment in the important case of Fernandez-Martínez c. Espagne (application no 56030/07), in which it concluded by six votes to one that “the choice of the bishop not to renew the contract of a teacher who is a married priest and activist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing Reveals More Chinese Human Rights Abuses</title>
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		<comments>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/abortion/house-foreign-affairs-committee-hearing-reveals-more-chinese-human-rights-abuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annalee Seath, J.D.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[US State Department]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, led by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), conducted a hearing yesterday to discuss Chinese human rights abuses brought into the international spotlight by activist Chen Guangcheng. Committee members and testifying activists spoke with Chen for the second time in recent weeks via telephone through translator and friend, Pastor Bob Fu. This time, Chen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand introduces an intrusive birth control plan for women receiving welfare payments</title>
		<link>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/abortion/new-zealand-introduces-an-intrusive-birth-control-plan-for-women-receiving-welfare-payments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/abortion/new-zealand-introduces-an-intrusive-birth-control-plan-for-women-receiving-welfare-payments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucia Muchova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual and Reproductive Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand government is planning to offer free long-term contraception such as implants and IUDs to women who receive welfare payments and their daughters, the BBC reported last week. The plans have aroused opposition from those who consider this to be an intrusive step into private family life; and some have accused the government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN&#8217;s &#8220;Earth Summit&#8221; setting itself up for Failure</title>
		<link>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/un-commissions/uns-earth-summit-setting-itself-up-for-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/un-commissions/uns-earth-summit-setting-itself-up-for-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Herrmann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Earth Summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio +20]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The UN announced last month that at least 130 Heads of State, Vice Presidents, Heads of Government, and deputy Prime Ministers would be attending its upcoming conference on sustainable development, a misleading claim that no one has been able to verify, not even the UN itself. The only verifiable truth behind their claim is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scandal and the human rights system</title>
		<link>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/abortion/scandal-and-the-human-rights-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/abortion/scandal-and-the-human-rights-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sovereignty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treaty Bodies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Julian Ku over at Opinio Juris posted today on the intertwined relationship between UN human rights bodies and activist US law professors. He picks up on Walter Olson&#8217;s piece in the Daily Caller.  The cases focus on the abuse of monitoring bodies and special rapporteur positions to promote special rights in the case of indigenous peoples. This is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Bishops Question Girl Scouts Programs</title>
		<link>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/abortion/catholic-bishops-question-girl-scouts-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/abortion/catholic-bishops-question-girl-scouts-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 22:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPPF]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Girl Scouts have been criticized for years for its leadership pulling the wholesome organization into the trendy world of sexual and gender activism. The piecemeal flare-ups accumulated until, in 2010, revelation of one incident at the UN (in this Friday Fax, and this one) exposed the whole stinking mess. &#160; Now the U.S. Conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Younger Women Rejecting Abortion Advocacy: NARAL Leader to Step Down</title>
		<link>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/abortion/younger-women-rejecting-abortion-advocacy-naral-leader-to-step-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/abortion/younger-women-rejecting-abortion-advocacy-naral-leader-to-step-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Correnti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NARAL president Nancy Keenan has announced that she will be stepping down at the end of the year to allow the oldest pro-abortion rights group the ability to bring in younger leadership. Keenan mistakenly believes this is the answer to recruit and engage a younger membership that places a priority on abortion rights as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Government Funds Forced Sterilizations in India</title>
		<link>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/abortion/uk-government-funds-forced-sterilizations-in-india/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/abortion/uk-government-funds-forced-sterilizations-in-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MDGs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGOs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sexual and Reproductive Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British government gave $268 million to the government of India for a program that forcibly sterilizes poor women and men, according to the Guardian newspaper. This news comes as the Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation prepares to co-host a family planning summit with the British government in London this July. Melinda Gates recently dismissed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Sexual Left Gains, Developing Countries Lose at UN Population Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/turtle-bay-un/opinion-sexual-left-gains-developing-countries-lose-at-un-population-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2012/turtle-bay-un/opinion-sexual-left-gains-developing-countries-lose-at-un-population-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our colleague Piero Tozzi writes in this week&#8217;s Friday Fax on a recent contentious meeting at the UN: My colleagues at the Friday Fax reported last week that the “Latex Left” lost at the just ended UN Commission on the Population and Development, that they came away “empty handed.” With respect, I disagree with this [...]]]></description>
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