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“Many people have watched fights between communities and big corporations around the world. The corporations usually win so those are the Goliath. The Davids usually lose,” says John Cavanagh...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/09/water-defenders-ordinary-people-saved-country-corporate-greed-conversation-co-authors-robin-broad-john-cavanagh/

Too often, many in my community are excluded from sexual and reproductive health services, said Ruth Morgan Thomas, co-founder and Global Coordinator of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, i...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/07/engaging-marginalized-groups-essential-achieving-universal-health-coverage/

“The world is still feeling the full brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic which most likely had its origins in a wild animal,” says John Scanlon AO, Former Secretary-General of CITES (the Conventio...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/07/john-scanlon-case-criminalizing-wildlife-trafficking-international-law/

The decision to have a child usually requires a feeling of stability and confidence in the future, says Natascha Braumann, Director of Global Government and Public Affairs for Fertility at EMD Se...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/06/cost-care-covid-19-pandemic-exacerbated-baby-bust/

Bodily autonomy is something almost innate in us, and yet also a Eureka moment for many people, says Dr. Nahid Toubia, Director for the Institute of Reproductive Health and Rights in Sudan on thi...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/05/conversation-dr-nahid-toubia-bodily-autonomy-2021-state-world-population-report/

“The more the United States can get itself back on track, the better position it is in to exercise climate leadership,” says Sue Biniaz, a member of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Joh...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/03/sue-biniaz-u-s-track-climate-action/

“I’ve been quite impressed by the wide diversity and complexity of young women’s and men’s engagement for peacebuilding and development often while confronting seemingly insurmountable ch...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/03/conversation-marisa-o-ensor-securitizing-youth-youths-role-peace-security-agendas/

“It’s more than just clinical care. It’s cultural. It’s connection to country. It’s connection to land. It’s all of those things that are important to the woman and family, kinship, b...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/03/reviving-culture-nations-midwifery/

“I think most people will agree today that the development landscape is, well, it’s highly uncertain, it’s increasingly complex,” says Steven Gale, Lead of the Futures/Foresight Team at t...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/02/conversation-steven-gale-usaids-foresight-unit/

When Navajo Midwife Nicolle Gonzales talks with Native American women about birth, there’s a sense something is missing, she said in this week’s Friday Podcast. “But,” she said, “we don...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/02/native-american-midwives-navajo-families-thrive/

“The very first political order in any society is the sexual political order established between men and women,” says Valerie M. Hudson, a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M, in ...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/01/valerie-m-hudson-sex-shapes-governance-national-security-worldwide/

“After a period of populist nationalism…multilateralism is back, and climate is the multilateral challenge of the moment,” said David Lammy, a member of Parliament for Tottenham in the Unit...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2020/12/climate-multilateral-challenge-moment-highlights-conversation-climate-change-multilateralism-equity/

Camille Harris, Registered Māori Midwife, is unapologetic about her decision to study midwifery and practice exclusively with Māori families, in this week’s Friday Podcast. “It was always t...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2020/12/maori-midwives-power-indigenous-birthing-practices/

In a year that has presented enormous challenges, it is even more gratifying to present evidence that strengthens the importance of midwives as providers of essential sexual and reproductive heal...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2020/12/midwife-delivered-interventions-provide-dramatic-benefits/

“We need to give more weight to the voices of people who are most affected by climate change,” says Vanessa Nakate, a prominent Ugandan climate activist, in this week’s Friday Podcast. At t...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2020/12/vanessa-nakate-giving-weight-voices-affected-climate-change/