'Face to Face' Campaign.To raise awareness about women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and in the new millennium through the Internet, check out the Face to Face campaign co-sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) began funding population programs in 1969. It was renamed the United Nations Population Fund in 1987, but kept its original abbreviation. . Through its Web site, www.facecampaign.org, you can send a postcard with the message that says "Fact: more than 120 million women have undergone female genital mutilation female genital mutilation: see circumcision. , with 2 million more at risk each year". Another postcard reads: "Women own only 1% of the world's land and receive only 1% of the world's income". The international campaign aims to publicize the plight of millions of women and youth denied basic human rights and build support for increased funding for reproductive health Within the framework of WHO's definition of health[1] as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health, or sexual health/hygiene services around the world. |
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