<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>DAKAR, Senegal</strong> — Filmmakers from around the continent are being invited to submit their films and documentaries for a film festival devoted to ending violence against women in Africa.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Violence against women and children by warring groups in Darfur is reaching alarming levels.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Violence against women is a serious human rights violation and an affront to women’s freedom at large, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, said today.</p>

<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan</strong> — Many mothers and children in areas hit by last year’s earthquake in Pakistan have better access to health care than before the disaster, as a result of joint efforts to restore services.</p>

<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>MAPUTO, Mozambique</strong> — Ministers of health and delegates from 48 African countries meeting here today unanimously agreed that the right to health is under serious threat in Africa, and that poor sexual and reproductive health is a leading killer.</p>

Young people from developing countries are increasingly on the move and represent a third of all international migrants.

<p align="left"> <strong>LONDON/NEW YORK</strong> — Today, half of all international migrants—95 million—are women and girls.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Women are half of all international migrants, but their rights and concerns are largely ignored, says a forthcoming report by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, expresses its deep concern about recent reports of delays at Israeli checkpoints of women in labour, which have resulted in forced roadside births, and even death of some women and infants.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Women are half of all international migrants, but their rights and concerns are largely ignored, says a forthcoming report by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>TORONTO</strong> — Despite all of the discussions of scaling up treatment at the <a href="http://www.aids2006.org/" target="_blank">XVI International AIDS Conference</a> in Toronto, pregnant women remain one of the most poorly served of all HIV-positive populations, warn experts with UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>TORONTO</strong> — “Prevention” and “new technologies” are the buzzwords at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, but UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is calling attention to the fact that millions of people still lack access to the most basic and available preventive method of all—the male and female condom.</p>