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05/26/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/26/2021 14:32 ASSISTANT SPEAKER CLARK, MENENDEZ INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO REPORT ON THE STATUS OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD ASSISTANT SPEAKER CLARK, MENENDEZ INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO REPORT ON THE STATUS OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD The Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act would permanently require the State Department to report on the status of reproductive rights in its annual human rights reports. Washington, D.C. - Today, Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA-5) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair...

As medical oxygen turns into a luxury, scientists are working on a cheaper way to produce it By studying different materials that store and separate gases, scientists see potential in some affordable solutions for devices such as oxygen concentrators. Oxygen is mostly obtained from liquefied air. | Adnan Abidi / Reuters People might once have considered oxygen a human right. But the pandemic has revealed that access to oxygen – in a pure form, for medical use – is a luxury in most low and middle-income countries. Getting access to pure oxygen for medical treatments is a...

People might once have considered oxygen a human right. But the pandemic has revealed that access to oxygen – in a pure form, for medical use – is a luxury in most low and middle-income countries. Getting access to pure oxygen for medical treatments is a complicated, expensive and often very dangerous business. The current situation in India is a harsh reminder of this issue. The second wave of COVID-19 has hit the country hard, the total number of deaths has just passed the 200,000 mark. Oxygen is in short supply. Because of the current emergency, Indian citizens have turned to the black...

Petra De Sutter said non-binary people have been "overlooked" by Begium's existing gender-recognition laws. (HATIM KAGHAT/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images) Belgium will legally recognise non-binary people as part of reforms to gender recognition laws, deputy prime minister Petra De Sutter has confirmed. De Sutter, a Green politician who was appointed last October, is the most senior transgender politician in Europe and Belgium’s first trans minister. She also serves as the minister for public administration and public enterprises in a seven-party coalition led by the Flemish liberal prime min...

President Joe Biden has put his campaign words into action, sending a signal to the world that America is picking up the torch again as a global champion for LGBTQ rights. On February 4, Biden empowered staffers of the departments of state, justice and homeland security, both domestically and abroad, to take meaningful action on behalf of LGBTQ rights. His revised "Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World" strengthens the historic memorandum signed by former President Barack Obama in 2011. At the time, Obama'...