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2013/06/20 05:30
2013/06/20 05:30
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Child Marriage Impediment to Women Development Go...
WHEN she was 13 years old, Margreth Kibasa was married off to a 40 year old man, dashing her hope of joining secondary school and eventually becoming someone important in society. Margreth who is now...
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2013/06/20 05:30
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2013/06/20 05:29
2013/06/20 05:29
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Family Planning Bid Gets Support
FEMALE condoms and emergency contraceptive pills will now be available in public health facilities, thanks to a donation of family planning life-saving supplies from the
United Nations Population Fund
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2013/06/14 11:31
2013/06/14 11:31
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UNFPA Rep. - Collective Effort Is Needed Combatin...
The Country Representative of the
United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA), Madam Esperance Fundira, has stressed the need for collective efforts in combating obstetric fistula in Liberia. Obstetric...
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United Nations Population Fund
Monrovia
Government of Liberia
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2013/06/14 09:31
2013/06/14 09:31
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Malawi Govt Calls for Elimination of Child Labour
Lilongwe — As Malawi joins the rest of the world in commemorating the Day of the African Child, Government has called on stakeholders to join hands in the fight against child marriages in the...
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Lilongwe
United Nations
United Nations Population Fund
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
Save The Children
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2013/06/13 10:15
2013/06/13 10:15
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Mobile phones help find once unreachable fistula ...
Obstetric fistula, an abdominal injury that occurs in unattended childbirth and causes incontinence, is among the most intractable challenges of extreme poverty. In Tanzania, however, a pilot program...
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2013/06/13 06:30
2013/06/13 06:30
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Factbox - Facts and Figures On Child Marriage in ...
Dar es Salaam — Tanzania has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. On average, some two out of five girls will be married before their 18th birthday. In 2010, about 37 percent of...
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Dar es Salaam
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2013/06/11 09:31
2013/06/11 09:31
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13-Old Girl Dies After FGM Operation
Thirteen-year-old Sohair al-Batea died shortly after a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) operation was conducted on her Thursday evening at a clinic in the governorate of Daqahlia, a UN statement...
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2013/06/10 12:30
2013/06/10 12:30
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Mozambican Man Campaigns for Female Condom
Matola — The female condom has been making its way across developing countries, particularly those in the African continent. While many see this as a woman's commodity, one man in Mozambique is...
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2013/06/10 09:45
2013/06/10 09:45
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Using NASA technology to treat postpartum bleeding
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Contractions becoming more and more intense as their intervals become shorter and shorter is one of the many signs of labor. For many pregnant women, this would mean going to...
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2013/06/08 15:29
2013/06/08 15:29
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Eye On India Festival
June 8, 2013 (CHICAGO) -- Through July 14, 2013, you can experience Indian culture to the fullest right here in Chicagoland. The not-for-profit organization "Eye on India" (EOI) (www.eyeonindia.org)...
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2013/06/06 20:16
2013/06/06 20:16
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WDOs get motorcycles
The Child Development and Women's Affairs Ministry provided motorcycles for 124 women development officers (WDOs) attached to divisional secretariat offices. The final phase of this project was held...
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2013/06/02 15:12
2013/06/02 15:12
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Women's rights are human rights - now more than e...
To eradicate poverty and to achieve sustainable development, countries must first achieve gender equality. Women must be offered the same access to all aspects of life as men in order to reach equal...
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Fumio Kishida
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2013/06/02 00:46
2013/06/02 00:46
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Child marriage, an issue of concern
TOO YOUNG: Child marriages turning into a major social problem was discussed at large at the Women Deliver Global Conference 2013 held earlier this week in Kuala Lumpur. Suzanna Pillay reports on how...
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2013/06/01 16:30
2013/06/01 16:30
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Access to Contraceptive Stressed - At Women Deliv...
On the second day of Women Deliver 2013, the largest conference on girls and women of the decade, global leaders announced progress and new commitments toward expanding contraceptive access for women...
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Melinda Gates
United Nations Population Fund
Babatunde Osotimehin
Nafsiah Mboi
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2013/06/01 16:01
2013/06/01 16:01
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Albay leads the way
Albay leads the way As the rainy season comes, so do typhoons, floods, and landslides. Death and devastation follow. The greatest defense of typhoon-prone regions is, therefore, preparation –...
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Joey Salceda
United Nations Population Fund
LEGAZPI CITY
Bicol University
United Nations
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2013/06/01 08:29
2013/06/01 08:29
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Sex Educators Struggle to Break Taboos
Kuala Lumpur — Liberian journalist Mae Azango says she spent a year living "like a bat, going from tree to tree" with her daughter in order to escape religious fanatics who were threatening to kill...
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Liberian Government
Kuala Lumpur
Civil Society
United Nations Population Fund
Babatunde Osotimehin
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2013/05/31 12:30
2013/05/31 12:30
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Family Planning an Economic Painkiller?
This may be against the grain but the intention is not to stir the hornets' nest. Conventional wisdom is that we should plan our families. We should have a few children that we can adequately cater...
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United Nations Population Fund
International Planned Parenthood Federation
United States Agency for International Development
US Federal Reserve
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2013/05/30 08:45
2013/05/30 08:45
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RH Law cited in international women's conference
KUALA LUMPUR, Malayasia – The enactment of the Reproductive Health Law in the Philippines was cited as one of the achievements made at advancing contraceptive access and improving maternal health at...
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Enrique Ona
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Kuala Lumpur
Catholic Church
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2013/05/30 06:44
2013/05/30 06:44
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'142 million child brides by 2020'
STOP PRACTICE: There's a need to debunk misperception that marriage protects girls KUALA LUMPUR: CHILD marriages can be eradicated not only with a strong political will, but also by educating...
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2013/05/30 02:29
2013/05/30 02:29
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Global Leaders Call for Accelerated Progress on F...
A mother and her child from West Point, a low-income neighbourhood of Monrovia, Liberia. The 10-worst countries in which to be a mother are all in sub-Saharan Africa. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — On the...
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