July 2010

Global Media Awards Accepting Entries

Do you host a regular media show that involves population issues? Maybe you volunteer with a reproductive justice organization and you’ve written editorials or commentaries about specific issues. Perhaps you have your own YouTube channel where you create mini documentaries about population and the environment. Or maybe you’ve got your own campus broadcast radio or television show where you’ve dedicated a discussion to global population issues. If any of these describes you, you might want to apply for the Global Media Awards.

Film Highlights Global Lack of Reproductive Freedom

In the Western world, we take it for granted on a daily basis that we can control the number of children we have—or whether or not we can have them at all. We do have some huge setbacks in terms of equality, ridiculous laws regarding ultrasounds, notification, and waiting periods when it comes to abortion (not to mention that nearly 90% of U.S. counties don’t have access to an abortion clinic), and we could all definitely use a more reliable, safe method of birth control rather than the options we already have—but when compared to many other nations, like so many other things we are privileged with, we can largely make our own reproductive decisions and manage our uteruses.