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U.N. Urges Protection For The Elderly As World Grays

AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 11.30.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Elderly, Video, Aging, Senior Citizens, Elderly Poverty, Elderly Discrimination, Aging Population, International Labor Organization, Elder Care, UN Population Fund, Hisako Tsukida, Seniors, Ap, Babatunde Osotimehin, Caring for the Elderly, Fifty News

TOKYO (AP) — The fast aging of Japanese society is evident as soon as one lands at Tokyo's Narita airport and sees who is doing the cleaning. Young ...

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7 Billion People: Where The World Is Headed

Posted 01.01.2012 | World
Read More: United Nations Seven Billion, World Seven Billion, Population Growth, Seven Billion, Seven Billion People, UN Population Fund, World News

Danica May Camacho weighed 5.5 pounds when she was born in the Philippines on Monday. She was one of several babies chosen by the United Nations to ce...

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7 Billion And Counting: Challenges as World Population Hits Milestone

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 12.17.2011 | World
Read More: Population, World Population, Reproduction, Family Planning, Poverty, Children, Overpopulation, Water, Uganda, U.N. Population Fund, World News

She's a 40-year-old mother of eight, with a ninth child due soon. The family homestead in a Burundi village is too small to provide enough food, and t...

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Laura Bassett

House Republicans Cut More Funding For Women's Health

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 12.05.2011 | Politics
Read More: China One Child Policy, Video, Unfpa, International-Family-Planning, Republicans Family Planning, United Nations, 112th Congress, Howard Berman, UN Population Fund, International Women's Health, Renee Ellmers, Politics News

The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a bill on Wednesday that zeroes out U.S. aid to the United Nations Population Fund, a women and children'...

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A Better Future for Haitian Women

Melissa Winkler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Haiti Tents, Haiti Displacement, Haitian Women, International Rescue Committee, Irc, Hygiene Kits, Haiti Sexual Violence, Women's Organization's Haiti, Women's Health Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Tent City, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti Relief, Kay Famn, Women's Rights Haiti, UN Population Fund, Cash-for-Work Programs Haiti, Haiti Women, Impact News
Melissa Winkler

After the earthquake hit, thousands of Haitian women and girls suddenly found themselves packed into unsafe camps. The International Rescue Committee is providing much needed supplies to women in Haiti.

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The Dissembler

Cristina Page | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, Family Planning, Birth Control, Unfpa, Population Research Institute, Reproductive Rights, Steven Mosher, Contraception, United Nations, Pro-Life, UN Population Fund, Pro-Choice, Christian Fundamentalism, Politics News
Cristina Page

Hopefully, with the arrival of the Obama administration, Steven Mosher's ability to force his extremist views on the rest of the world will soon be over.

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