The Project which is being sponsored by the Netherlands Government through Plan Ghana, has the objective of reducing sexual and gender based violence against girls and young women. Another aim of the project is to ...
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North Carolina is pioneering because it has a public-health officer who spent twenty-five years as a country doctor, practicing among North Carolina's poor. He knows why North Carolina has virtually the nation's worst record on all matters connected with births. Ignorance, poverty, insanitation, disease, poor hospital facilities, little if any prenatal care -- all these contribute to infant and maternal mortality rates that are truly appalling. Delete the scoop?
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The health status of women is linked to their fundamental freedoms and empowerment. Education and occupational opportunities as well as access to health care are crucial components for building a healthier future for women worldwide. Delete the scoop?
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Last week I realized that I've taken women's health, or what's really at issue -- women's access to needed care -- for granted. That's changed now. Delete the scoop?
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Within the United States, it is becoming increasingly difficult for women to maintain reproductive health. 46 states have pushed forward “pro-life” legislation and in 2011 alone, state legislators introduced over 900 bills limiting reproductive services Delete the scoop?
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It’s not just teenage girls who are willing to starve themselves or “binge and purge” in order to become as thin as the movie stars and fashion models they admire. Delete the scoop?
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The Project which is being sponsored by the Netherlands Government through Plan Ghana, has the objective of reducing sexual and gender based violence against girls and young women. Another aim of the project is to ...
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Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Tom Suehs signed a rule today that formally bans Planned Parenthood clinics and other "affiliates of abortion providers" from the Women's Health Program — likely ending the program. Delete the scoop?
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By ensuring that the children eat nutritiously, the women are effecting life-long change for those around them, too. According to Zein Hamad, dietician with the Palestinian Ministry of Education, certain health problems, such as anemia — which significantly handicaps children’s learning ability — and obesity, have dramatically reduced in the area since the women started their work. The anemia rate has plummeted from one-quarter of all children, to just a handful. Delete the scoop?
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The idea that violence against women can be part of “God’s plan” raised its ugly head recently in the presidential campaign. Rick Santorum, the most religiously conservative candidate in the GOP field and the current front-runner. explained his religious opposition to abortion even in the case of rape or incest, because “in the sense of rape” this is a “gift” of God, albeit “a gift in a very broken way.” Thus, women and girls who are raped and become pregnant should “accept what God has given to you.” ...? Delete the scoop?
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From sex trafficking to genital mutilation, from honor killing to forced prostitution, Half The Sky takes an unflinching look at so many of the ways that women and girls are oppressed around the world every day, through the stories of many of the women who have suffered and survived these crimes and injustices -- some of whom have escaped with their lives and have come out better on the other end, and some who have not. Delete the scoop?
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With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men. This doesn't diminish the work that they do. Delete the scoop?
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The Virginia Senate, following in the lower house's footsteps, considered two bills this week that expose a major philosophical difference dividing Republicans and Democrats: the line between a law that properly protects women's health and one that reaches too far into women's private medical decisions. Delete the scoop?
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CBS 11 News followed a running group you may have spotted in Fort Worth's Cowtown Marathon this past weekend. Black Girls Run! is a group of North Texas women who are on the move to get African American women healthy. Delete the scoop?
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Reproductive health care and women's empowerment go hand in hand. Sometimes, especially in remote settings, access to reproductive health care is also a question of life and death. Delete the scoop?
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It is well documented that maintaining a healthy body image is one of the most important drivers of self-esteem among young women. ... Delete the scoop?
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There’s an equation that today’s society has come to understand. Even if you don’t teach kids about sex, they inevitably do it anyway. When they don’t understand birth control or can’t get their hands on it, girls inevitably get pregnant. Delete the scoop?
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Rep. Bob Morris is accusing Girl Scouts of being "radicalized organization" that supports abortion and promotes homosexuality.
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The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada is calling for a cultural change in attitudes toward female genital mutilation, a practice it calls a human rights violation. Delete the scoop?
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