Sex Education
Essential Terms: Sexual and reproductive rights
From assisted reproductive technology to egg freezing, learn about essential terms used in discourse about sexual and reproductive rights.
#05: Spring 2020
Reproductive rights are about much more than the prevailing pro-life versus pro-choice abortion debate or access to contraception. It’s a human rights discussion that affects everyone. In this edition of Ariana, we interview women across society: teenage girls driven to black-market abortion clinics, women who are freezing their eggs, transgender women seeking better reproductive health services, and surrogates in India preparing for strict new legislation.
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Healthcare
Life Studies: Navigating reproductive ethical dilemmas
Experts from the fields of religion, biology, and psychology unpack challenging ethical dilemmas.
Community
World of Change: Breast cancer rowers, solar engineers, and underwater experiments
Explore social projects around the globe, from a dragon boat team formed by breast cancer survivors to a school training women to be solar engineers.
Interviews
The Pitch: Sai Kung Stray Friends founder Narelle Pamuk learns how to pitch sponsors
Sai Kung Stray Friends Foundation’s founder Narelle Pamuk learns how to pitch sponsors from Hong Kong Round Table’s Jonathan Benarr.
Community
Right At Home: How Cradle of Hope supports Macao’s most vulnerable children
Cradle of Hope provides shelter and developmental support to vulnerable children in Macao.
Healthcare
Live and Learn: Culture news for April 2020
A selection of thought-provoking documentaries, books and podcasts from the Ariana team.
Disabilities
Her Voice: SENsational Consultancy’s Faride Shroff on why inclusivity is essential
Faride Shroff, the founder of SENsational Consultancy, explains why she’s working to cultivate a more inclusive workforce.
Healthcare
By the numbers: Sexual and reproductive health around the world
A deep dive into reproductive rights and health issues around the world.
LGBT+
Surrogacy Shortcomings in Hong Kong
Hong Kong-based lawyer Evelyn Tsao unpacks the city's surrogacy laws and their impact on same-sex couples.
Healthcare
Let’s Talk About Sex: Macao’s religiously affiliated schools design their own curriculums
For many students in Macao, progressive sexuality education is still off the table.
Healthcare
Out of Step: How Hong Kong reproductive healthcare fails transgender men
Hong Kong’s sex education and health care provisions are failing transgender patients.
Reproductive Rights
Invisible Tolls: Roadblocks to timely abortions in Hong Kong
Long waits and social stigma hinder young women from obtaining safe, timely abortion services.
Healthcare
Tomorrow’s Harvest: What you should know about egg freezing
Egg-freezing offers women greater reproductive freedom, but does it come at a cost?
Healthcare
The Surrogates: Is India’s strict new surrogacy law the wrong move?
For many women, India’s surrogacy programme has led to greater financial empowerment. But a new law could put an end to the practice.
Healthcare
Personal Essay: Why I chose to be child-free
In her personal essay, Tanja Wessels explains why choosing a life without children works for her.
Healthcare
Local Voices: Breaking The Cycle
We speak with doctors, lawyers, professors, and teenagers about reproductive rights in the SARs.
Community
Through the Lens: Under the Sky
Through the Lens is a recurring photography and poetry series that champions creativity and collaboration. In this edition, we invited a Macao photographer and a Hong ...
Healthcare
Last Word: Remembering Dr Joanna Tse, Hong Kong’s Daughter
Remembering Dr Joanna Tse Yuen-man, who lost her life while treating victims of SARS.
