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Liz Ford

Liz Ford is deputy editor of the Guardian's Global development website.

January 2021

  • Domestic opponents of the Trump administration consistently opposed its aid policies.

    Joe Biden axes 'global gag rule' but health groups call on him to go further

    President’s move to end ‘abortion ban’ on overseas funding hailed – now aid groups want apology for harmful Trump policies
  • People queue to receive a dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine in Jerusalem.

    Coronavirus live
    EU 'to stop short of vaccine export ban' – as it happened

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  • The number of contraceptive users across Africa has grown 66% since 2012.

    Covid 'imperils family planning in poorest countries', says global project

    Sixty million more girls and women using modern contraceptives due to global campaign, but pandemic recession threatens services

December 2020

  • Population Connection Action Fund protest outside Trump International hotel in Washington

    'We're going to save lives': aid groups look to end of Trump's 'global gag rule'

    Joe Biden’s election as US president raises reproductive funding hopes – but some caution that reversing rule’s impact will not be quick

November 2020

  • Keyrings sold in Mexico City to raise money for victims of domestic violence

    'Shadow pandemic' of violence against women to be tackled with $25m UN fund

  • A Marie Stopes clinic

    Marie Stopes charity changes name in break with campaigner's view on eugenics

October 2020

  • Ukrainian social policy minister Olha Revuk at the opening of the Women, Peace and Security in Ukraine photo exhibition celebrating 20 years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

    Russia loses UN vote over women's rights in conflict zones

    Security council resolution that many feared would weaken human rights is rejected by UK, US and other states
  • Women Deliver CEO Katja Iversen

    Women Deliver racism investigation verdict described as a 'slap in the face'

    Complaints of ‘white saviourism’ and harassment at the group led to the review, which found no individual responsible

    • 'We have a right to be at the table': four pioneering female peacekeepers

    • Russia makes bid to water down UN commitments on women's rights in conflict

    • Women's health organisation president resigns following bullying and racism investigation

September 2020

  • During the pandemic gender-based violence has surged, women’s jobs have become 1.8 times as vulnerable as men’s and the care burden has increased.

    Most countries failing women and girls with Covid response, UN finds

  • Activists outside the women’s rehabilitation centre in Ilopango, El Salvador

    El Salvador woman freed after six years in jail following stillbirth

  • Ireland's Parliament

    Coronavirus live
    Irish minister tests negative; closing schools a 'last resort', says WHO – as it happened

  • INDIA-HEALTH-VIRUS<br>Migrant labourers and their family members from Maharastra hold kitchen utensils as they protest against the government for the lack of food in a slum area, after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, on the outskirts of Amritsar on May 31, 2020. (Photo by NARINDER NANU / AFP) (Photo by NARINDER NANU/AFP via Getty Images)

    'Covid has magnified every existing inequality' – Melinda Gates

August 2020

  • Nobel laureates and members of the Nobel Women’s Initiative (left to right) Leymah Gbowee, Mairead Maguire, Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Tawakkol Karman and Rigoberta Menchú Tum.

    Nobel Women's Initiative founders 'shaken' as seven staff resign

    External review launched following collective resignation, which cited need for ‘profound organisational reforms’

July 2020

  • JESSE HELMS SPEAKS TO CHRISTIAN COALITION<br>Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) speaks before the Christian Coalition Annual Meeting September 13. The meeting portrayed President Clinton as untrustworthy and immoral and said it would do everything in its power to defeat him in the 1996 election. CAMPAIGN CHRISTIANS

    Democrats introduce bill to repeal anti-abortion rule for US overseas aid

  • A board explaining contraceptive methods, Caracas, Venezuela

    Covid-19 threatens access to abortions and contraceptives, experts warn

  • IWHC’s president Françoise Girard

    Women's health organisation accused of 'institutional racism and bullying'

  • Guarani women and children in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

    Ignoring effects of Covid-19 on women could cost $5tn, warns Melinda Gates

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