With over 35 million homeless children in India, and shelters for only 36,000 of them, children's lives can be precariously balanced and sexual abuse is widespread. But even those living at home are not always safe.
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Initiatives in Bolivia are using new approaches to increasing access to high quality sexual and reproductive health services for all women in multi-cultural settings.
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Though still more young girls than boys are kidnapped for marriage, there are parts of India where kidnappings of boys for marriage occur more frequently than for ransom.
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The Taliban succeeded in pushing back women's rights by centuries. But eight years of international presence in Afghanistan have not improved women's prospects by much if at all.
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Rather than recognizing the need for sex education, India's government has responded with a deplorable decision to eliminate all sex education in schools, one that has been criticized extensively.
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The absence of penal laws and widespread violence against homosexuals and transgender persons does not make the Philippines totally “gay friendly” or even “pro-trans.”
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The Mexican State, the metropolitan area which surrounds the capital is implementing an HPV vaccination campaign aimed at students in the sixth grade.
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NGO reports indicate that Cambodia, like many other countries, is falling short on its commitments to universal access to reproductive health services.
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Movement or displacement of women after marriage in India is a phenomenon commonly linked to issues of exploitation and trafficking of women.
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Proposed reforms in Spain's abortion laws recommended by a government-appointed commission of doctors, lawyers, academics and government
representatives have the Catholic Church up in arms.
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