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07-11-2016, 07:32 PM
7 ***ual health issues facing teen girls globally — and how you can help
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Girls may run the world, but they're also up against major inequality — and they could use more support.
July 11 is World Population Day (http://www.un.org/en/events/populationday/), an annual U.N. event that focuses on the urgent issues (http://www.unfpa.org/world-population-trends) affecting the world's booming population. This year's theme is "investing in teenage girls" — a call for attention and action on this particularly vulnerable part of the global population.
Of the more than 7 billion people in the world, approximately 1 billion (http://www.un.org/youthenvoy/2015/04/10-things-didnt-k**w-worlds-population/) are young girls between the ages of 10 and 24. And they're facing some big challenges, from high rates of child marriage to inadequate health care access.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/11/reproductive-health-teenage-girls/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Girls may run the world, but they're also up against major inequality — and they could use more support.
July 11 is World Population Day (http://www.un.org/en/events/populationday/), an annual U.N. event that focuses on the urgent issues (http://www.unfpa.org/world-population-trends) affecting the world's booming population. This year's theme is "investing in teenage girls" — a call for attention and action on this particularly vulnerable part of the global population.
Of the more than 7 billion people in the world, approximately 1 billion (http://www.un.org/youthenvoy/2015/04/10-things-didnt-k**w-worlds-population/) are young girls between the ages of 10 and 24. And they're facing some big challenges, from high rates of child marriage to inadequate health care access.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/11/reproductive-health-teenage-girls/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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