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Keys to Improving Maternal Health: Education, Resources and Community Partnerships
As Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of the new agency, UNWomen, opened a panel on maternal mortality and morbidity and the empowerment of women during the Commission on the Status of Women yesterday, she stressed…
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Educating Young Women: Executive Directors of UNESCO and UNFPA Share a Common Vision
<p>Appointed in January 2011, Dr Osotimehin, a former Minister of Health of Nigeria, stressed that “education was the most important intervention to attain human development”.</p>
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UNFPA Provides Equipment for Rwanda’s Population and Housing Census
KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda’s fourth national census is slated for 2012, but initial work has already started. Detailed maps that enumerators will use to count every household are being prepared, with the help of some of…
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Making Gender Statistics Meaningful on the Ground
UNITED NATIONS, New York — The right data can advance understanding of gender dynamics, drive change and clarify results. But the collection of gender statistics has only been going on since 1980, and though much has…
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Making the Connection: Building on the Synergies Between Women’s and Children’s Rights
NEW YORK — Though the rights of children and mothers are inextricably linked, in our compartmentalized world, the rights of women and those of children have often been promoted in isolation from one another.
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The Right of Women and Girls Living with HIV to Sexual and Reproductive Health Takes Centre Stage at the CSW
<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York — HIV is the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age worldwide.</p>
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Two Districts in Northern Ethiopia Declare an End to Female Genital Cutting
<p>AFAR, Ethiopia — An official declaration marking the abandonment of female genital cutting was issued recently in the Amibara and the Awash-Fentale districts of Ethiopia’s Afar Region.</p>
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Facing the New Challenges of an Ageing World
What happens when there are no longer enough young people to pay for the demands on a country’s social security system as the ranks of the elderly grow?
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Congo/Women Projected on Façade of Nobel Peace Centre
OSLO — No woman should die giving life, yet almost 800 women die every day from pregnancy-related causes, 99 per cent of them in developing countries.
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