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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sylvain Plazy and Lorne Cook

Women's rights activists rally in Belgium fearing US plans for birth control supplies

Europe US Contraceptives - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Dozens of women’s rights activists rallied Thursday near the U.S. Embassy in Brussels to protest what many say are plans by President Donald Trump's administration to destroy millions of dollars in family planning supplies meant for women living in hardship in Africa.

The concerns rose after the Trump administration earlier this summer said it was considering the way forward on the stockpile, stranded in a U.S.-funded warehouse in Geel, Belgium. The administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which managed foreign aid programs, left the stockpile’s fate uncertain.

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