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Aug
20
2015

Suffering in silence: An inside look at Canada’s stance on violence against women

By ncbwf1

In an effort to bring more awareness to the issue, The Canadian Network of Women’s Shelters and Transition Houses (EndVAW) begun a survey in November 2013 called Shelter Voices. EndVAW, which stands for ‘end violence against women’ is an organization that gives a national voice to the survivors of domestic abuse. The network was established in 2009 and currently represents 350 individual shelters across Canada.

Aug
11
2015

Women leaders call to ‘step it up’ for gender equality

By ncbwf1

After two days of intense analysis on the progress made since the adoption of the Platform for Action by 189 countries in 1995, the global women leaders determined that progress has been slow and uneven. No country has yet achieved gender equality across all areas of public and private life, and significant inequalities persist between women and men.

Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka
Aug
11
2015

Rising diabetes, obesity rates may put ethnic groups' heart health at risk

By ncbwf1

Heart disease and stroke risks showed "striking differences" for South Asian men, black men and women and Chinese men over a 12-year period, a new Canadian study suggests.

Obesity rates rose among all of the ethnic groups, with the largest relative increase among Chinese men, Maria Chiu, a scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto and her team reported in Monday's issue of the journal BMJ Open.

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black women
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Apr
29
2014

Violence Against Women

By ncbwf1

Far too many women and girls live in fear day in and day out. The World Health Organization reports that an astounding one in three women worldwide experiences physical or sexual violence. In some countries, that rate jumps to 70 percent.

Women Thrive works for transformational change to reduce, prevent, and address domestic violence, rape, bride burnings, dowry deaths and other kinds of violence and abuse against women and girls.

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women rights
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Apr
28
2014
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The secret to a successful online presence

By ncbwf1

Phosfluorescently e-enable adaptive synergy for strategic quality vectors. Continually transform fully tested expertise with competitive technologies. Appropriately communicate adaptive imperatives rather than value-added potentialities. Conveniently harness frictionless outsourcing whereas state of the art interfaces. Quickly enable prospective technology rather than open-source technologies.

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