Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health 2018

This case study highlights the role of ethics in health policy as it played out in religious opposition to abortion policy in the Obamacare health reform bill. It follows Michigan’s Democratic Congressman, Bart Stupak, as he attempted a middle-ground negotiation that was fair to his constituency’s traditional pro-life and Catholic opposition to abortion, while also supporting health reform. The case invites discussion on the role of personal conscience, personal career, constituent wishes, interest group demands,…

These fact sheets accompany the UN-Women’s flagship report, Families in a Changing World: Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020, which features global, regional, and national data on the status of women around the world, particularly within families, considering current economic, demographic, political, and social transformation. The regional fact sheets explore gender equality in many domains and include information on family diversity, marriage and divorce trends, fertility, family laws, protections for same-sex partnerships, violence against women…

This report from United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) illustrates the pervasive nature of discrimination against all women and girls across the world, and offers actionable recommendations on how to fulfill the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, which was adopted by the international community in 2015 and established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to address global challenges through economic, social, and environmental progress. The report explores, through a gender lens, the…