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Women's rights could lower population growth
News from The Scientist 2000, 1(1):20000920-03
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LONDON, September 20. The death-rate among African women giving birth is so large that "it is not uncommon for women... when about to give birth, to bid their older children farewell" says the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), today. This is just one of a multitude of appalling stories and statistics in the UNFPA's annual State of the World Population Report, Lives Together, Worlds Apart, which this year focuses heavily on the poor treatment of women relative to, and by, men.
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