If it is to maintain its pro-Palestinian rights reputation, Ireland must end its financial ties to settlements.

If it is to maintain its pro-Palestinian rights reputation, Ireland must end its financial ties to settlements.

The bank has actually been very successful – just not for the poor it’s claimed to serve.

In Poland and across Europe, US-based Christian-right groups are working to limit women’s access to abortion.
![Demonstrators, including students and employees of a local university, hold a protest against the ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal that imposes a near-total ban on abortion, in Gdansk, Poland October 28, 2020 [Bartosz Banka/Agencja Gazeta via Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-28T115959Z_2116918755_RC2NRJ9JTPJN_RTRMADP_3_POLAND-ABORTION.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
By not trying to improve childbirth conditions, ultra-conservatives reveal that their true interests lie elsewhere.

Classing abortions as ‘non-essential’ is cruel and an assault on the rights of women to bodily autonomy.
