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BY CARRIE N. BAKER | The American Society for Emergency Contraception (ASEC) has created a campaign called Emergency Contraception for Every Campus—known as EC4EC—to mobilize and assist students to develop peer-to-peer EC distribution networks on college campuses and to advocate for EC vending machines.

“I hope there are EC vending machines everywhere, and not just on college campuses. I want them in communities, in bodegas on the corner, in CVS, in just random parks around the city. And in family planning deserts.”

BY JULIET SCHULMAN-HALL | There are more individuals with mental illness in prisons than in hospitals. The mental health crisis is especially targeting women, who are three times more likely than men to experience physical or sexual abuse before becoming imprisoned and are more than 90 percent more likely to suffer mental health problems in prisons.

“What we know is that jails and prisons repeatedly let women down; they do not meet mental health needs in a holistic way.”

BY AKSHI CHAWLA | Georgina De la Fuente, senior advisor at Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE), Mexico’s electoral management authority, shares the range of reforms brought in to ensure equal participation and representation of women in politics.
 
“Rules do matter. Rules can guarantee that women are able to exercise their rights like anyone else. Rules do make a difference.”