Editing for regional authors

Climate change and its silent impact on sexual and reproductive health in Nepal

How does climate change influence sexual and reproductive health?
This is one of the most frequently asked questions when people learn that climate change affects sexual and reproductive health. Most people in Nepal are unaware that climate change has an impact on their sexual health, and these issues are not of main concern to them.
Nepal, with its diverse ecosystems and intricate geography, ranks among the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries. Extreme weather events—those storms and flood...

Expanding family planning access in Indonesia: Tackling myths, boosting clinical skills and challenging patriarchy

Ipas Indonesia is tackling this critical issue in three districts of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), a province over 1,000 kilometers from Bali. According to the Indonesian National Family Planning Coordinating Board, modern contraception usage in this region was just 42.20% in 2022, falling significantly short of the national average of 59.40%.
A 2023 Ipas Indonesia’s Assessment conducted in NTT has shown that contraceptive use remains low because women often discontinue use after the first contracep...

Ipas Democratic Republic of Congo: At the forefront of the fight against gender-based violence

Humanitarian response efforts to the region struggle to meet many vital necessities, made more difficult by insufficient resources and a complex logistical and security context. This often leads to the neglect of other basic needs, including sexual and reproductive health. To address this gap, Ipas DRC took an integrated approach to provide sexual and reproductive health care to displaced women and girls sheltering at the Bulengo camp. With local partners and the support of the National Reproduc...

Editing technical tools and resources

Disability inclusion in reproductive health programs: An orientation and values clarification toolkit

This toolkit provides all the resources needed to plan workshops for organizations that want to build a disability inclusion mindset among their staff and partners who work on abortion and sexual and reproductive health and rights programs. This toolkit is designed specifically for trained VCAT facilitators with experience delivering VCAT workshops in the field of abortion and SRHR.

This toolkit provides all the resources needed to plan workshops for organizations that want to build a disabilit...

Slide to Christian Nationalism: CPAC's Global Expansion into Mexico

The U.S.-based Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), well known as a nexus for right-wing activism, is holding its first forum in Mexico. This brief for anyone interested in the global anti-rights movement provides an overview of CPAC’s background and international expansion, with a focus on how CPAC is collaborating with far-right actors in Mexico to advance its Christian nationalist agenda.

The U.S.-based Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), well known as a nexus for ri...

Trauma-informed care for abortion providers treating sexual violence survivors in humanitarian settings

The world is facing multiple concurrent humanitarian emergencies that stem from conflict, natural disasters or pandemics. In such crises, women and girls may encounter disruptions in their social and family structures or livelihoods and, in turn, experience greater gender and reproductive health disparities. Increases in the risk of gender-based violence (GBV) and barriers to accessing contraceptive methods, safe abortion or other sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services make it challenging...

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Amazon.com: On the Tip of Her Tongue: 9781736980415: Roth, Jerry: Books

Are you ready to step into the mystery and become part of the story?In this groundbreaking interactive novel, you’ll journey alongside the protagonist as they unravel a tangled web of secrets, betrayal, and danger. But this isn’t just any mystery—hidden within the pages are the clues you need to solve it yourself. Decipher coded messages, uncover hidden symbols, and piece together the truth as the plot twists and turns toward an unforgettable conclusion.Perfect for fans of immersive storytelling...

Amazon.com: Silvers Hollow (The Grey World Universe Book 2) eBook : Delaney, Patrick: Kindle Store

"Patrick Delaney's gripping Silver Hollow begins in amnesia and impossible memories, stuttering forward through disjointed experiences as its protagonist tries to make sense of a situation whose details continually slip, continually fail to add up. Wandering the moodily-lit landscape of a Hopper painting, navigating a narrative located at the intersection of Hitchcockian paranoia and the Lynchian surreal, Delaney's protagonist must solve the mystery of her surroundings, which also promises to so...

The Teratologist: Parker, Ward: 9781950627042: Amazon.com: Books

Beneath the glitter of Gilded Age Palm Beach, monsters lurk in the shadows...In 1902, the world is full of new wonders, from telephones to motorcars. It's full of prejudice, too, particularly for people born with physical deformities. Dr. Frank Follett's mission is to study and help them. His specialty is called teratology, derived from the Greek word for "monster." But he never expected to encounter real monsters.Traumatized by his service in the Philippine-American War, he travels to the resor...

The Shape of the Atmospshere: Dainty, Jessica: 9781945502118: Amazon.com: Books

Jessica Dainty is a native New Englander, who has bounced back and forth from the Northeast to Tennessee over the past 20 years. In her day job, she has worked 15 years in public education in a variety of roles.She received her undergraduate from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where she started in poetry. She took her first fiction workshop for the simple reason that it terrified her, and after that, she never looked back. She continued on to earn her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley...

Amazon.com: Juggling Kittens: 9780997135138: Coleman, Matt: Books

Ellis Mazer is a soon-to-be father, a first year English teacher, and a directionless twenty-something entering the directionless 2000-somethings. Local and national tragedies feed Mr. Mazer's seventh graders the essay fodder that almost makes his job bearable. But when Spencer--trailer trash with more ring worms than friends--stops coming to school, Ellis discovers that he may be the only person who even notices, much less cares. What begins as a good-natured attempt to deliver some make-up wor...

Amazon.com: The Juliet: 9781945502002: Scott, Laura Ellen: Books

"Ah, the wild west, where the men are tough, the women are trouble, and the emeralds are cursed."THE JULIET is a novel that braids the history of a cursed emerald called The Juliet with the story of an ailing, retired cowboy actor who comes to Death Valley to search for her. Rigg Dexon, best known for his role as Holt Breck in the classic but controversial seventies Western, Gallows River, holes up for months in a shack known as the Mystery House, until he is driven out of seclusion by the recor...