The UN Fund for the population (UNFPA) was facing sporadically cuts in its budget due to reduced US donations, but this time the impact of US President Donald Trump’s policy are even more “devastating” for reproductive health worldwide. Following the adoption in 1985 by the US Congress of the Keb-Casten amendment, all Republican governments of the US reduced their donations to UNFPA, accusing it of promoting abortions and forced sterilizations in China, an allegation rejected by the UN service. The second Trump government is no exception. “They have blocked programs worth more than $ 330 million from day to day,” mainly in some of the most difficult areas in the world, such as Afghanistan, Kanem explained in an interview with AFP on the occasion of the current presentation of the annual UNFPA report. “So, yes, we suffer.” […]
Source: News Beast
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