UN calls for better protection for women migrants
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Governments worldwide must do more to   protect a growing number of women from exploitation when they   venture overseas to work and earn money for their families, a   U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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PRETORIA -- The number of women infected with HIV is rising in every region of the world, according to a new UN report released yesterday, and top AIDS officials said long-used strategies to help prevent the spread of the deadly disease among women are woefully inadequate.
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Some countries have taken major strides to improve the rights and reproductive health of women but more must be done to meet goals set at a UN conference a decade ago, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Goals set a decade ago to cut world population growth and ensure women&#39;s rights could be missed without greater resources and political will, a UN report said on Wednesday.
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AS AIDS increasingly assumes a female face, new efforts to tackle the social conditions that make women particularly vulnerable are urgently needed, the United Nations warns.
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LISBON, Mar 8 (IPS) - In spite of their conquests in the 20th century,  and  so far in the 21st, women in the European Union (EU) are  still a long way  from achieving equality with men -- a goal  unequivocally laid down in the  Universal Declaration of Human  Rights.
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ROME, Oct 5 (IPS) - UN officials have been denied permission to check  the safety of about 850 migrants deported to Libya from Italy  since Friday.
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The European Union's top justice official on Wednesday called for a massive shake-up of the bloc's border security, recommending that all visitors be screened and fingerprinted and a satellite surveillance system be set up to keep illegal migrants out.
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An OSCE-sponsored conference on improving human rights protection for trafficking victims concluded by calling on governments around the world to do more to stop the smuggling and exploitation of people.
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Women in the developing world are waiting to have a family and giving birth to fewer children, a UN report says.
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UNITED NATIONS A high-level panel is calling for changes in the United Nations to better handle global threats in the 21st century.
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The U.N. secretary-general warned that violence against women has reached "hideous" levels in some countries trying to recover from conflict, and the U.N. Security Council demanded an end to impunity for rape and other sexual abuse.
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Wealthy countries must donate billions more dollars to ensure women&#39;s reproductive rights and cut population growth, a UN report said on Wednesday.
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On the occasion of today's International Migrants' Day (18 December), Amnesty International reiterates its concern about the plight of millions of migrants around the world who are denied access to their ...
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Saudi Arabia must create laws to protect women from violence and also allow them to play a bigger role in society and the workplace, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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The United Nations must offer better protection to 25 million civilians displaced by conflicts from Sudan to Colombia, a report said on Friday.
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