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United States Rejects Calls by U.N. Human Rights Council to End Harmful Restrictions on Reproductive Rights

U.S. position leaves women without access to essential health services

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 24, 2015.  This week the United States government rejected recommendations from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, and Belgium urging the Obama administration to implement the Helms Amendment correctly—preventing women worldwide from accessing safe, legal reproductive care. 

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A U.S. delegation responded to a range of issues at the Human Rights Council– the U.N.’s main human rights body—as part of a review of the…

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