Nations vow to improve status of women
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Chile's first female president marked International Women's Day on Thursday saying women were in politics "to stay," while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe must do more to bring about gender ...Comment
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Four countries that want permanent membership on an expanded U.N. Security Council &#151; Brazil, Germany, India and Japan &#151; vowed on Tuesday to support each other's bids and pledged to reform the United Nations.
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Countries around the globe have stepped forward with pledges of cash and assistance to the victims of the southern Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster.
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Improving women&#39;s rights could  boost the battle against AIDS in southern African countries,  where women are often forced into risky sex by male partners or  economic desperation, a new report said on Friday.
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Women may have made strides in achieving parity with men in the workplace in recent years, but they still have a long, long way to go, according to a new report from the Institute for Women&#39;s
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Women must have more control over how they give birth as well as where, new NHS guidance states.
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LONDON, Aug 29 (IPS) - A London conference of non-governmental   organisations will set ''clear and  coherent'' new priorities to take  forward the  agreements on reproductive health reached in Cairo ten years   back.
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Older women and migrant families boost births.
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Many advanced countries face collapsing populations. Making it easier for women to work may be the best way to increase birthrates.
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Chile's first female president marked International Women's Day on Thursday saying women were in politics "to stay," while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe must do more to bring about gender equality.
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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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BRUSSELS, Nov 23 (IPS) - The poor urgently need a female-centred strategy to  fight AIDS, says a landmark new report.
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The U.N. General Assembly's   first Muslim woman president took office on Tuesday vowing to   put U.N. reform and battling world poverty at the top of her   agenda.
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RIYADH: As the UN&#39;s Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women approaches, Saudi women are calling for urgent state policies to protect victims of domestic violence in the conservative Muslim kingdom.
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The AIDS pandemic rampaging around the globe will not be stopped without radical social change to improve the lot of women and girls, who now look likely to die in greater numbers than men, UN agencies said on Tuesday.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 15 (IPS) - Developed countries are failing to live up to their  commitments to fund sexual and reproductive health care leaving  poorer countries to pick up the bill, says a new UN report  released Wednesday.
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Accra, Nov. 25, GNA - Women leaders on Thursday suggested that a major way of cutting down the HIV/AIDS prevalence level among women was for them to have the right to negotiate safe sex.