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Ten actions for a more equal world

calendar_today16 October 2017

Around the world, vast inequalities have trapped people in a cycle of poverty and marginalization. © Andrea Bruce/Noor
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State of World Population 2017

Publisher

UNFPA

Publication date

Oct 2017

Author

UNFPA

Number of pages

140

State of World Population

State of World Population 2017

Worlds Apart - Reproductive health and rights in an age of inequality

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Mexico: Streets Not Paved with Gold

calendar_today27 October 2011

Mexico: Streets Not Paved with Gold

Mexico: Streets Not Paved with Gold

As global population rises, projected to reach 7 billion in October 2011, so does the population of the world's cities. Thousands of young people live as homeless on the streets of Mexico City, the world's eighth largest city. Many of them, who had fled their homes because of lack of jobs or family violence now find themselves in squalid and often dangerous conditions.