last week the un population fund released its state of world population 2008 report. individual chapters are available here . the entire report is available here pdf. there is a host of data in it but ill point out a couple things about russia. first from pdf page 89 the infant mortality total per 1000 live births is 16. for comparison for the ......
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en 1998 la asamblea general expres su profunda preocupacin por el hecho de que el sindrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida sida habia adquirido proporciones de pandemia. al tomar nota de que la organizacin mundial de la salud oms habia declarado dia mundial del sida el 1 de diciembre de 1998 la asamblea destac la importancia de la observancia adecuada de esa ocasin ......
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...ality. includes a supplement generation of change young people and culture. from the united nations population fund. state of world population 2008 culture gender and human rights......
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the papua new guinea government handed down a pgk7.6 billion approx.us3 billion budget for 2009 yesterday.the governments revenue expectations were downgraded to reflect the effects of the global financial crisis on png a decline in mineral revenues courtesy of lower global prices and the appreciation of the kina.nbsp treasurer patrick pruaitch was nevertheless c......
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culture is a fundamental part of peoples lives. its integration to policies and programs is deemed essential to achieve development according to this years state of world population report . carrying the theme reaching common ground culture gender and human rights the report stressed that culturally sensitive approaches are key to promoting human rights in general and womens ......
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reaching common ground culture gender and human rights launched 12 november 2008 reports that culture is a central component of successful development of poor countries and must be integrated into development policy and programming. the report which coincides with this yearas 60th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights is based on the concept that the internati......
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should i stay or should i goa that was the question on everyones mind this week on eli stone and appropriately enough it was also the title of the episode as elis firm wethersby posner and klein split unamicably down the center.a while jordan wethersby victor garber and eli jonny lee miller struggled to keep the lawyers at their new pro bono morallyco......
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condoms trump abstinence in obama global aids policy update1 by jason gale and john lauerman nov. 10 bloomberg presidentelect barack obama will reverse u.s. familyplanning and aidsprevention strategies that have long linked global funding to antiabortion and abstinence education a publichealth adviser said. publichealth policies of preside......
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nov. 10 bloomberg presidentelect barack obama will reverse u.s. family planning and aids prevention strategies that have long linked global funding to antiabortion and abstinence education a publichealth adviser said. public health policies of president george w. bushs 45 billion pepfar program have brought aids drugs to almost 3 million people in poor countries su......
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bush administrasjonen har sttt bak en mengde negative beslutninger og handlinger. en av demvar reinnfoeringen av the gag rule. dette har resultert i at mange flotte program tjenester og klinikker innenfor seksuell og reproduktiv helse bde i usa og i mange utviklingsland ble lagt ned. en av de organisasjonene som fikk merke det var unfpa som jeg er goodwill ambassadoer for. kongressen hadde oere.....
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dfw is an apolitical aorganiza tion.awe dont give money toaprograms with a political agenda but that doesnt mean that i have to avoid every reference to politics oratheaeffects ouraus policiesahave on women around the world ai am taking a brief moment in the wake of the most important election of my lifetime to stand on my soap box aand tell it like i see it.......
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its hard to believe that election day is now less than a week away. the economists policy for womens issues has graded the candidates nationally but here with a special and first edition of global exchange gwen and tonni will be grading each candidate on their work in international issues that affect women. we are absolutely thrilled to have them address a......
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in thursday october 23rds edition of the independent journalist johann hari asked the question dare we stand up for muslim women hari pictured below right a young british journalist with left leanings and who has defended muslims against the fear mongering of canadian rightwing writer mark steyn has presented an interesting and compelling case for the nee......
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the united nations population fund unfpa has convened a twoday global forum of faithbased organizations in istanbul. the main result was the formation of an interfaith network on population and development. the goal was to strengthen cooperation against the global urgencies of maternal death aids and poverty. the press release says that the global forum was opened on october ......
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una sagoma un profilo una silhouette nera a quanto basta a questo bellissimo filmato di unfpa united nations population fund per farci comprendere il dramma della mortalita da parto . pochi segni per comunicare sofferenza disperazione ed un messaggio che non si pua dimenticare no woman should die giving life . per me uno dei migliori spot sociali degli ultimi anni e......
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the public health community mourns the loss of allan rosenfield former dean of the columbia mailman school of public health and a leader in the fight against domestic and international causes of maternal death and disability and hivaids. in thailand during the 1960s dr. rosenfield worked with the population council to reform the family planning system an element of quickly reducing t......
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1 skein of sundara sock yarn in roasted persimmon over green papaya seasons sock club autumn october 2008 shipment 25. average monthly per capita income in cambodia 24.16 ashford traditional singledrive lacquered singletreadle spinning wheel 535 the gross national income per capita in benin 2006 540 the theme of this years blog action day is p......
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today oct. 15 is blog action day the day that thousands of bloggers regardless of their genre unite to discuss a single issue. this years issue is poverty. many experts believe that education is a sustainable solution to poverty specifically education of girls. why girls ummm because we rock recent studies corroborate what camfed has observed and fostered on the groun......
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in the islamic state of mauritania its illegal to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. rape is undefined in the countrys law. women on the front line mauritania part 1 of 2 women on the front line mauritania part 2 of 2 source unfpa......
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katie and i saw this bumper sticker on a car on my way into work yesterday.a paraphrasi ng charles babbage i am not able to rightly comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke a person to create such a bumper sticker. jesus did not come to give his life for the eternal salvation of all men but rather to organize the community 8211thou gh not recorded in the scriptures it ......
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morocco is coming to terms with the human rights abuses of its recent past. women on the front line morocco part 1 of 2 women on the front line morocco part 2 of 2 source unfpa......
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irene is 21 years old 9 months pregnant and lives in a tent city in gori georgia. some 128000 georgians were displaced following the georgiarussia conflict that began in august. louise leejones is a worldfocus contributing blogger and guest columnist for the pulitzer center on crisis reporting . she reports from georgia about the challenges facing georgian youth and women who h......
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