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Late Friday night, the 46th Session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development wrapped up here in New York, and [...]
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We’re in Week Three of our 50 Days of Action for Women and Girls Campaign. This week’s theme is “Putting Women and [...]
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Yesterday, the UN’s Commission for Population and Development (CPD) opened its 46th session. The week-long session will focus on new trends in [...]
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After two weeks of fierce negotiations at the United Nations’ annual Commission on the Status of Women, on March 15 more than 130 governments committed to ending violence against women and girls, and reached strong agreements to promote gender equality and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services.
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In this two-part blog series by IWHC’s Shannon Kowalski, she discusses how the proposal for “universal health coverage” in the next post-2015 development agenda falls short when it comes to women and adolescents.
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The post-2015 development agenda must focus not only on the direct determinants of HIV infection, but also the profound gender inequalities and resulting discriminatory practices which make women more vulnerable to the virus and which stand squarely in the way of addressing its spread.
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The International Women’s Health Coalition is centrally concerned with the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people. The following contribution focuses specifically on the challenges facing girls, who continue to experience systematic social, economic and political marginalization in every part of the world.
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The last couple of days of the ICPD Global Youth Forum in Bali, Indonesia, have seen a flurry of around-the-clock activity by [...]
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Starting today, the ICPD Global Youth Forum brings together nearly 1,000 young people, government leaders, advocates, academics, and others together to discuss [...]
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