[L-I] State of World Population 2000

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released The State of
World Population 2000 report. Its just another example what the results of
global capitalism are. The UNFPA sums up the results like this:

Millions of women are denied reproductive choices and access to health care,
contributing each year to 80 million unwanted or mistimed pregnancies and
some 500,000 preventable pregnancy-related deaths. Nearly half of all
deliveries in developing countries take place without a skilled birth
attendant present.

Violence against women and girls is widespread-one woman in three will
experience violence during her lifetime, most often at the hands of someone
she knows. Each year 2 million girls are at risk of genital mutilation, and
up to 5,000 women and girls are the victims of so-called "honour" killings.

Women's lack of control over sexual activity and its consequences is a major
factor in the spread of HIV/AIDS, now the fourth most common cause of death
worldwide and the leading killer in Africa, where infected women outnumber
infected men by 2 million.

Two thirds of the 300 million children without access to education are
girls, and two thirds of the 880 million illiterate adults are women.

The whole report is at
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm



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