A US charity is set to lose its European Union funding after openDemocracy revealed it received money to run a programme educating girls and young women on sexual and reproductive health despite promoting anti-abortion disinformation.
Our investigation, published in October last year, found the EU gave the World Youth Alliance €1.2m for a number of youth training and educational programmes after the charity made false claims about abortions, including that they cause health complications.
This money included €400,000 to deliver ‘Women’s Health Goes Digital’, which aimed to “design and deliver innovative training programmes in the field of women’s mental and reproductive health and rights”.
