The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right to free speech. But when student journalists in Missouri wrote a series of articles on teen sex and divorce in 1983, their school appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for the...

Three states are asking a judge to let them try a new approach with a lawsuit to force the federal government to reduce access to the abortion pill mifepristone. (Scripps News)

A Newsy investigation reveals a push by organized groups to stop schools from teaching what advocates say is critical to preventing sexual assault.

English/Nat

Actress Jane Fonda is calling for the United States to lead the world in family planning - instead of reducing its support for birth cont
rol.
Her rallying call came in a speech in Washington to...

A Washington appeals court is blocking for now an abortion sought by a 17-year-old being held in a Texas facility for unaccompanied immigrant children.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the...

Once easy to find, condoms have been disappearing from pharmacy shelves in Venezuela since the start of the year, along with many food and cleaning products.

At pharmacies across the capital, Caracas,...

Attappady, Palakkad district, Kerala, India - April/May 2008

1. Pan from view of hills to
road
2. Wide
of village
3
. Pan over huts
4. Various of women...

AP Television

Bogota, Colombia - 1st October,
2009
1. Mid shot of students walking inside the Costa Ric
a's school
2. Mid shot of students...

A human rights organisation in Caracas has shocked shoppers at a local mall by displaying pregnant mannequins wearing high school uniforms to raise awareness of what they say is the high pregnancy rate among...

Once easy to find, condoms have been disappearing from pharmacy shelves in Venezuela since the start of the year, along with many food and cleaning products.

At pharmacies across the capital, Caracas,...

April 24, 2008

1. Mid of women lighting candles as part of anti-abortion demonstration in front of Legislative Asse
mbly
2. Close-up of candle
being lit
3. Wide woman lighting u
p...

1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sarah Palin, Alaska Governor and Republican Vice-presidential running mate:

"So Track is the eldest of our five children and our family, it's two boys and three girls in...

1. Various exteriors of the Gloucester High School building

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Christopher Farmer, Gloucester High School Superinten
dent:
"What we did know was there was a group of female...

These young Cameroon schoolchildren are about the age when most girls are subjected to breast ironing.

The aim is to break down the tissue...

Every year thousands of Mexican girls become mothers long before they become adults.

For years the government has run a nationwide education...

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