U.S. Gifts & Pledges

Through 2-04-12 $ 4,218,252 and counting!!!

Donate    Be one of 34 million Americans to contribute at least $1 to our grassroots movement for the women of the world. Invite others to join you. By Credit Card, click on DONATE  above or BY MAIL: Cash or Checks. Please make out checks to UNA Pasadena with 34 Million Friends in the "FOR" line but this is not necessary. Any check sent to this address is for 34 Million Friends. PO Box 93606 Pasadena, CA 91109    This P.O. Box is exclusively for 34 Million Friends All contributions are tax deductible. Message From Jane     Please Read Nicholas Kristof's and Sheryl Wudunn's crucially important book "HALF THE SKY: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide."   Jane Roberts and Her 34 Million Friends is a big part of Chapter 8. A Kristof quote about Jane: "I tend to think that the great injustices of the kind we write about in `Half the Sky' will involve not only leadership from the White House and the UN but also from citizens like Jane Roberts in places like Redlands." How very nice!!!

 

Good Stuff from UNFPA Director Babtunde Osotimehin in FORBES
Click here: UN Population Fund Executive Director on HIV/AIDS, Maternal Health, and Leadership - Forbes

Jane's article: Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin of UNFPA writes about Population in Science Magazine Click here: Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin of UNFPA writes about Population in Science Magazine | RH Reality Check

July 4, 2011 Dr. Babtunde Osotimehin, head of UNFPA says communication with men about reproductive and sexual health is crucial. I think having a man as head of UNFPA will make this easier. http://www.worldandmedia.com/health/analysis-including-men-in-sexual-health-programmes-0407.html

Seven Billion Reasons to Invest in Family Planning by my friends Martha Campbell and Malcolm Potts.  www.populationmedia.org/pmc-blog

Different Aspects of Poverty from Jane Roberts Click here: http://www.ladybugflights.com/pdf/featured.pdf

Letter by Duff Gillespie (a friend, a member of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health) in the Lancet Medical Journal about the omission of naming contraceptives on the priority medicines list for life saving interventions. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61017-9/fulltext 

Feb 23, 2011  My strongly worded admonition to the House of Representatives about UNFPA funding. http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/reader-diaries/2011/02/23/fantasy-testimony-republican-house-representatives-about-unfpa-funding   

Jane Roberts (for 34 Million Friends) calls in to NPR's Talk of the Nation discussion with Nicholas Kristof and Mary Robinson on empowering women. Sept. 23, 2010. Click here: Equality Still Elusive For World's Women : NPR

THE EARTH IS FULL. PLEASE read this. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/opinion/08friedman.html?hp

Benjamin Tutu (audio from the BBC) on child marriage. 4 minutes, great!!http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9506000/9506366.stm

From the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition. Because of rising population among women of childbearing age, the need for increased budgets for family planning commodities is clear. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56134

The heads of Engenderhealth and the Global Health Council write in the Huffington Post for FAMILY PLANNING! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-l-sturchio/the-best-investment-in-gl_b_831575.html

The U.N. Population Fund reminds us that access to contraception is a human right!http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/news/pid/7427

The WORLD SUPPORTS UNFPA! http://www.turkishweekly.net/print.asp?type=1&id=115960  Contributions up!!! June 10, 2011

 

Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell (my friends) write in Foreign Policy Magazine. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/09/the_myth_of_9_billion

Child Marriage in Azerbaijan.  The dangers for girls. http://www.rferl.org/articleprintview/24209453.html

Lies, lies and more lies about UNFPA. This is all out war against the UN organization which does more for women's health and well-being than any other. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/05/26/house-republicans-file-bill-to-cut-pro-abortion-unfpa-funding/

My BLOG POST at Gender in Evaluation. 4-29-11. http://genderinevaluation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gender-equality-and-34-million  

Women shortchanged in investment dollars to mitigate effects of climate change. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56239.

The Center for Global Development recommends that UNFPA focus almostexclusively on sexual and reproductive health and less on tangential areas such as women's empowerment. This is well worth reading. I  think Babtunde is heading in this direction. April 11, 2011  http://click.email.cgdev.org/?qs=992d50215cba966146e1884314cd13c5a56cf689b2412a65d1ea980223b069c8 

Stephanie Ortoleva is an international human rights lawyer who happens to be blind. She's also a friend. Her web site: www.womenenabled.org

My friends Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell write in Foreign Policy Magazine. They know what they are talking about. http://www.npr.org/2011/05/11/136201025/foreign-policy-without-birth-control-planet-doomed

National Geographic. (Fascinating!)  The Coming Storm. Population and Climate Change in Bangladesh. April,2011  http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2011/05/bangladesh/belt-text

NY Times, May 2011, U.N. Predicts over 10 billion people by the end of the 21st century. This is NOT good.  

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/04population.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
 

Poor Jane's Almanac by Jill Lepore of Harvard. The story of Benjamin Franklin's sister. It has such relevance for today. DO please read. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/opinion/24lepore.html?hp

Lester Brown on population, water, food in the Middle East.  WOW!  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/22/water-the-next-arab-battle?INTCMP=SRCH   

 From the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (PMNCH) of which 34 Million Friends is a member, this web site: www.everywomaneverychild.org
  

UN Dispatch set the record straight about UNFPA and abortion. My comment is also here. http://www.undispatch.com/my-trash-collection-will-stop-because-members-of-congress-dont-want-to-believe-that-the-un-does-not-fund-abortions#comment-181201790

The Population Institute blogs about my blog! Jane Roberts Takes on the House.http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2011/03/01/jane-roberts-takes-on-the-u-s-house/

The wonderful Barbara Crossette in the UNA's Interdependent publication talks about the U.N.'s concern with population growth, how uneven it is  and how the developing world is particularly vulnerable. http://www.theinterdependent.com/110211/un-points-to-urgent-concerns-on-population-growth

April 2011 Follow up on ICPD, importance of population and women to development.http://www.iewy.com/22700-commission-on-population-and-development-to-feature-side-events-with-focus-on-effects-of-fertility-reproductive-health-on-development-11-15-april.html

 

My good friend Richard Grossman ponders why people don't pay attention to population. http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Why-People-Don-t-Pay-Attention-to-Population-Issues.html?soid=1103172936704&aid=UJmVp6oBHFA#fblike

Hillary Clinton on Child Marriage in Glamour Magazine. Also read the book I AM Nujood Age 10 and Divorced. http://www.glamour.com/women-of-the-year/2011/glamour-exclusive-hillary-clinton-catches-up-with-her-hero-nujood-ali#ixzz1DZiSI9bD

Feb, 2011  Britain pledges full support to the work of UNFPA http://www.isria.com/pages/2_February_2011_22.php

A good article by Jodi Jacobson summarizing the increases in global reproductive health including for UNFPA proposed by Obama. On Feb. 10, 2011, the House leadership announced it was going to cut UNFPA funding to zero.  http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/print/15544

 

A very important  video from UNFPA about the issues of family planning in the Philippines, contrasting government and Catholic Church views. Story of one couple. http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/news/pid/7137

My article on RH Reality check about the UNFPA video cited above. Title is Hooray for UNFPA. http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/reader-diaries/2011/01/21/hooray-unfpa

Cost benefits of adding family planning to investments in maternal and child health. Hint: They are huge. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/publications/pid/4461

Young girl from Bangladesh whipped to death for having been kidnapped and raped. Her crime: adultery. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/29/bangladesh.lashing.death/index.html

The new Executive Director of UNFPA, Babtunde Osotimehin M.D. addresses population and development issues and talks about the 1.8 billion young people on the planet today, 90 percent in developing countries. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37441&Cr=unfpa&Cr1=

 

Jan 5,2011 My newest article on the blog of www.endtheneglect.org. Ending tropical diseases which very much affect women. http://endtheneglect.org/2011/01/piecing-the-puzzle-together/ 

Barbara Crossette on political and cultural repression in the Arab World, published in the Interdependent of the United Nations Association. http://www.theinterdependent.com/110126/the-arab-world-a-region-of-political-and-cultural-repression 

 Feb. 12, 2011  Paul Ehrlich in the Los Angeles Times. Saving EARTH.      http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-morrison-ehrlich-021211,0,413002.column 

HERE WE GO AGAIN by Jane Roberts on the subject of reproductive health and the 2010 election. http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/reader-diaries/2010/11/11/here-again

The world's GLOBAL STRATEGY for women's and children's health.  Please read this very important document. Posted on Sept. 6, 2010.

http://www.who.int/pmnch/activities/jointactionplan/20100831_globalstrategyforwch.pdf

My Voice of People on the MDGs. 9-18-10 http://www.sbsun.com/ci_16105897?IADID=Search-www.sbsun.com-www.sbsun.com

Envision Gender Equality: Nothing Else is Working,Jane Roberts, The Solutions Journal http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/621

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) interesting research on men's reactions to gender equality issues. http://www.icrw.org/media/news/men-and-gender-equality-evolving-union?ms=1-12-11-eblast&utm_content=julianrob%40aol.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=More%20%26raquo%3B&utm_campaign=New%20at%20ICRW

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, the new Executive Director of UNFPA Jan. 1, 2011 http://unfpa.org/public/home/news/pid/6942?utm_source=MHTF+Subscribers&utm_campaign=5abe8ba105-MH_BUZZ10_12_2010&utm_medium=email  

Peter Hotez M.D. on neglected tropical diseases which affect women's reproductive health especially in Africa. OP-ED  LA Times Dec. 12, 2010. PLEASE read.  2010. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-hotez-tropical-diseases-20101212,0,289672,print.story 

 http://www.upack.com/press/population-growth/  VERY INFORMATIVE, an incredible graph.

 

My Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting video, made at Women Deliver 2010.

http://pulitzergateway.org/dying-for-life-your-stories/ Click on my picture

My blog for the Global Health Council Conference, June 2010 http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/conference_blog/a_radical_proposal_fighting_for_women_and_girls/  

The Millennium Development Guys by Jodi Jacobson. WELL WORTH READING!

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/07/07/millennium-developmentguys

June 30, 2010  US Ambassador at Large for Women's Global Issues, Melanne Verveer, Statement

http://usun.state.gov/briefing/statements/2010/143895.htm 

From the U.K. Great article: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Media-Room/Speeches-and-articles/2010/Placing-women-at-the-heart-of-development/?utm_source=MHTF+Subscribers&utm_campaign=ee80151fc8-MH_BUZZ7_6_2010&utm_medium=email 

 

Click here: Microloans Are Not Enough to Lift Women Out of Poverty

Click here: Roberts talks about women's issues - Redlands Daily Facts

Click here: Wanted: Real Money for the Poor-World’s Women

Click here: Worldview - U.N. Initiative Aims to Improve Maternal Health

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-climate-conflict27-2009nov27,0,303698.story  This article includes an iconic picture of women vs. climate change. Please see!

Click here: Women's eNews - Two Moved Mountains of Money for Global Health

Jane's review of Half the Sky for the Global Health Council

34 MILLION FRIENDS IN THE NY TIMES - Andrew Revkin Dot Earth!!!

Click here: World Population Day: The Centrality of Family Planning | RHRealityCheck.org by Jane Roberts

Click here: News & Broadcast - Family Planning and Reproductive Health Have Fallen off Global Development Radar ? World Bank, 

Click Here: When the World Takes Care of Women, Women Take Care of te World by Jane Roberts

Click here: A Discouraging Reality Check | RHRealityCheck.org by Jane Roberts

Click here: Roberts speaks about gender inequality - Redlands Daily Facts

Click here: The Girl Effect - Home 

Ban Ki-Moon Calls for Protection of Young Against Recession and Thoraya Obaid talks about the implication of 1.5 billion people on the planet being between 10 and 25 years old. Posted Aug. 12, 2010. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31743&Cr=youth&Cr1=econom

Participation of Men in Family Planning Decisions. Family Planning in Kenya: Not for Women Only http://www.unfpa.org/public/op/edit/News/pid/3015

The War for Afghanistan's Women by Malcolm Potts in the Los Angeles Times. Aug.23, 2009 I know him. Wonderful article! http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-potts23-2009aug23,0,3722899.story