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Violence Against Women: Stories You Rarely Hear About
23 November 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—Every day, women all over the world are abducted into forced marriage; subjected to harmful traditional practices; married, while still children, to far older men; and injured through gang rape and rape with foreign objects—usually during conflict.</p>
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Lawmakers Vow Greater Support for Safe Motherhood, Family Planning and HIV Prevention
22 November 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>BANGKOK</strong>—“Quality reproductive health care saves lives, and reduces poverty,” lawmakers from 103 countries agreed today, pledging to step up efforts to ensure that everyone has access to family planning, services for safe pregnancy and childbirth, and the means to prevent sexually transmitted diseases including HIV.</p>
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UN Agencies Call for Greater Integration of Health Services to Halt the Spread of HIV
06 November 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>SUBANG, Malaysia</strong> — With an estimated 930,000 new HIV infections in Asia and the Pacific in 2005, UN agencies have called for urgent efforts to prevent the escalating spread of the virus and reduce mortality by better integrating HIV prevention, treatment and care into maternal and newborn health services.</p>
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'Low Prevalence' Does Not Mean HIV Prevention Is Low Priority, Asians Say
27 October 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia</strong> — Low rates of HIV infection must not lead to complacency, representatives of 10 Asian and Pacific “low prevalence” countries agreed today.</p>
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Critical Food Aid and Medical Care Provided to Drought Victims in Mugu and Humla Districts of Nepal
26 October 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>KATHMANDU, Nepal</strong> — The United Nations World Food Programme and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, have joined forces to provide essential food aid and reproductive health care to hundreds of drought-affected families in Mugu and Humla districts of Nepal.</p>
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Dakar Film Festival Inaugurated to Fight for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
13 October 2006
<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>DAKAR, Senegal</strong> — Filmmakers from around the continent are being invited to submit their films and documentaries for a film festival devoted to ending violence against women in Africa.</p>
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UN Condemns Massive Upsurge in Rape in Darfur
09 October 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Violence against women and children by warring groups in Darfur is reaching alarming levels.</p>
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UNFPA Calls on Leaders to End Violence Against Women
09 October 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Violence against women is a serious human rights violation and an affront to women’s freedom at large, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, said today.</p>
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More Women Using Lifesaving Health Services One Year After Pakistan Quake
06 October 2006
<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan</strong> — Many mothers and children in areas hit by last year’s earthquake in Pakistan have better access to health care than before the disaster, as a result of joint efforts to restore services.</p>
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New Push to Promote Women's Health in Africa
22 September 2006
<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>MAPUTO, Mozambique</strong> — Ministers of health and delegates from 48 African countries meeting here today unanimously agreed that the right to health is under serious threat in Africa, and that poor sexual and reproductive health is a leading killer.</p>
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Young People Move More Now Than Ever
06 September 2006
Young people from developing countries are increasingly on the move and represent a third of all international migrants.
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New Report Calls on World Leaders to Protect Human Rights of Female Migrants
06 September 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>LONDON/NEW YORK</strong> — Today, half of all international migrants—95 million—are women and girls.</p>
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