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Family Planning and Reproductive Health
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Women's Equality
Efforts to eliminate gender bias throughout society: in schools, homes, the media, labor markets, business (access to credit), legal systems, government policy, etc. Enabling women to take control of their fertility, ensuring their sexual and reproductive rights. Also, coverage of the commercial sex industry and the trafficking of women and girls.

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Feminist Majority

International Center for Research on Women

International Women’s Health Coalition

National Organization for Women


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All terms and definitions, except where noted, are excerpted with permission from the Population Reference Bureau's International Population Handbook, by Arthur Haupt and Thomas Kane, 4th Edition, 1998.