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FULL STATEMENT DOCUMENT IS ATTACHED.

 

Joint NGO Statement at the UN Human Rights Council 8th Session

Geneva - 16 June 2008

 

Women's World Summit Foundation

International Federation of University Women

Pan Pacific Association of South East and West

Pan Pacific & South East Asian Women's Association

Zonta International

Inter-African Committee

The World Movement of Mothers

Solar Cookers International

Worldwide Organization of Women

 

Contact: Elly Pradervand - Women's World Summit Foundation - WWSF

wwsf@wwsf.ch; Phone: 022 738 66 19

 

Inclusion of text on RURAL WOMEN as "Rural women make up a quarter of the world's population and produce more than half the world's food; yet they own less than 2% of the land. ...The General Assembly 2007 declared to annually observe 15 October as International Day of Rural Women....."

 

WOMEN ARE THE KEY TO ENDING POVERTY AND HUNGER, BUT THEY NEED RESOURCES TO HELP SAVE, ESPECIALLY THE CHILDREN, FROM MALNUTRITION AND STARVATION.

 

"New data has made it evident that investment in women's economic empowerment yields striking improvements in nutrition, shelter, health care, and schooling for all."

 

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