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Ensure Rights of Women and Girls are Not Ignored at World Summit. [World] The Gender Monitoring Group of the World
Summit - an alliance of three leading non-governmental women's rights and development
organizations - Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), The Center for
Women's Global Leadership and the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)-
sent a letter to Sec
retary General Kofi Annan and President of the General Assembly,
Ambassador Jean Ping urging them and their colleagues "to stand firm on the
commitments to the human rights of women and girls, as outlined in the August 5 draft
Outcome Document for the World Summit." |
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Trafficking of Women, Children on Rise Worldwide. [World] Human trafficking is on the rise worldwide,
with millions of women and children ending up as sex slaves, beggars and mine laborers
each year, according to U.N. officials. |