UN Dispatch covers the fact that this is the seventh consecutive year that the Bush administration has denied funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which provides reproductive health services for women around the globe.

Tamara Kreinin, the Executive Director of the Women and Population program at the United Nations Foundation, says:

"The UN Foundation is looking forward to working with the next administration to restore funding for UNFPA and to strengthen the U.S.'s role as a global health leader. During the 2000 UN Millennium Summit, the United States pledged to work to respond to the world's most pressing development challenges, including poverty, gender inequality and disease. It is past time that the administration acknowledges how fundamental UNFPA is to addressing these global challenges and that the U.S. funds UNFPA's work."

As long as John McCain is not in office; he already voted to defund UNFPA in the past.