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    different resources and activities on poverty and citizenship
Kathleen Noreisch

Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame | World news | The Observer - 0 views

  • India has banned pre-natal scanning to determine the sex of a baby and made aborting a child as a result of such a scan punishable with five years in prison. Poster campaigns urge Indians to 'save the girl child'.
  • In the state of Punjab, only 798 girls were born for every 1,000 boys.
Kathleen Noreisch

Japan's workers urged to go home early to procreate | World news | The Guardian - 2 views

  • Japan's workers are being urged to switch off their laptops, go home early and use what little energy they have left on procreation, in an attempt to avert demographic disaster.
Kathleen Noreisch

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Chinese women 'want more babies' - 1 views

  • Family-planning officials say their research indicates that 70% of women want to have two babies or more.
Richard Allaway

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Chinese women 'want more babies' - 0 views

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    Family-planning officials say their research indicates that 70% of women want to have two babies or more.
Richard Allaway

Women bear the brunt of growing environmental problems in Katine | Katine | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    John Vidal looks at the impact of climate change on the sub-county and how it is hitting women the hardest
Richard Allaway

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | New soil map for African farmers - 0 views

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    The first detailed digital soil map of sub-Saharan Africa is to be created. The £12m ($17.5m) project will offer farmers in 42 countries a "soil health diagnosis" and advice on crop yields.
Richard Allaway

Vietnam plans return to two-child policy to tackle population growth | World news | gua... - 0 views

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    Government fears baby boom will damage economic growth and strain health and education services
Richard Allaway

Japan sees biggest population fall | World news | The Guardian - 2 views

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    Japan's population had its sharpest decline ever last year as deaths outnumbered births, posing an escalating economic threat to growth prospects amid a global recession.
Richard Allaway

Generation Faithful - In Booming Gulf, Some Arab Women Find Freedom in the Skies - Seri... - 0 views

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    A decade ago, unmarried Arab women like Ms. Fathi, working outside their home countries, were rare. But just as young men from poor Arab nations flocked to the oil-rich Persian Gulf states for jobs, more young women are doing so, sociologists say, though no official statistics are kept on how many.
Richard Allaway

BBC NEWS | Europe | Italy migrants' state 'appalling' - 0 views

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    The working conditions of many poor African migrants in rural areas of southern Italy are "appalling", the international medical charity MSF says
Rob Micallef

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bolivia declares literacy success - 1 views

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    A 30-month campaign to teach thousands of poor Bolivians to read and write has made the country "illiteracy free", President Evo Morales has declared.
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