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		<title>World Contraception Day: The Importance of Educating Young Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ismail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Saba Ismail, one of the Women Deliver 100 Young Leaders and program manager of the “Sahailee Hotline” In Pakistan, talking about sexual and reproductive health, sexuality and contraception is considered taboo. The truth is, Pakistan is a conservative country and the people here have feudal norms and culture.  Young people cannot talk about contraception nor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Contraception Day: We Were Fifteen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MarikoRasmussen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Mariko Rasmussen, public health student at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in Reproductive and Family Health. They say kids in Los Angeles grow up fast. Sitting across from a girlfriend over lunch the summer after my sophomore year of high school, I learned there could be truth in this statement. Following a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Investing in Women is MORE Important</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/why-investing-in-women-is-more-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deni Robey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Motherhood & Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typically when women make a little money they invest it in their families (up to 90% by some estimates). When coffers wealthy nations run dry, investment in women’s issue is usually one of the first things to go. That’s because everybody needs clean water but only women can die in childbirth (currently one every minute). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls Count, Women Matter</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/girls-count-women-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill Greer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[girls]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://new.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In these turbulent times of financial crisis, rising food prices, climate change and political instability, it is women and girls who will be disproportionately affected, particularly poor women in poor countries. It is girls who will be removed from school because families can no longer afford to pay for them; it is women who will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invest in Women &#8211; it Pays!</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/invest-in-women-it-pays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Sheffield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the moment the world loses 15 billion dollars every year in productivity that doesn’t happen because mothers and their newborns are dying – one mother a minute, four million newborns every year. A mother’s death always means deeper poverty and hardship for her family and community. It often means an early death for her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capital of Hope</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/capital-of-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuschman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microfinance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women and children do bear the brunt of economic hardship during any economic downturn. I witnessed this during the course of  2007 and 2008 when I made several trips to Ghana to photographically document a microfinance operation in Pokuase, a small town approximately one hour outside the capital of Accra. Because poverty in the third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 July 09: World Population Day</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/11-july-09-world-population-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/11-july-09-world-population-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investing in Women is a Smart Choice We echo the words of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the Observance of World Population Day: In the midst of the worst global economic crisis in generations, we must find the most effective ways to continue progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. There is no better [...]]]></description>
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