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Obstetric Fistula in Pakistan - Another Blight on the Child Bride
<p>KARACHI --- It was personal experience that turned Gul Bano and her cleric husband, Ahmed Khan, into ambassadors against early marriage and its worst corollary – obstetric fistula which allows excretory matter…
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After the Floods: Preventing Gender-based Violence in Colombia
<p>Some 180 women from communities affected by flooding and armed violence in Colombia’s Córdoba department have come together in the town of Santa Cruz de Lorica to build a women’s shelter.</p>
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Counting the World: New Documentary Explores the Census
Counting is one of the most basic intellectual tasks that children learn as a way to understand their world. This simple task, taken to the national level in the form of a population and housing census, becomes one of…
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Global Lawmakers Adopt Resolution to Support Maternal and Child Health
KAMPALA -- The Inter-Parliamentary Union, the world’s largest body of lawmakers, has approved a resolution to secure access to health, as a basic human right, for women and children.
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Log In and Listen: Melinda Gates Shares her Thoughts about Family Planning
BERLIN— The Big Picture, a TEDxChange event about applying new perspectives to development issues, launches 5 April. Convened by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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UNFPA Executive Director Urges Parliamentarians to Keep People at the Centre of Development
KAMPALA – Parliamentarians have a crucial role to play in ensuring meaningful, people-centred development.
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So Many Mouths to Feed: Addressing High Fertility in Famine-Stricken Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia– In Dabke camp for internally displaced persons in Mogadishu, Muno Abukar shares a tent with her eight children. Fleeing the famine, the family left their home in Lower Shabelle five months ago.
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Three Winners Announced for the '1 in 7 Billion' Film Competition
Three short films capturing three very different perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of today’s complex world have been voted as winners in the ‘1 in 7 Billion’ film contest.
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Learning to Love the Female Condom in Uganda
NEBBI, Uganda — Hundreds of women from all walks of life gathered in a school field here recently to celebrate International Women’s Day.
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