In remarks to the U.N. Commission on Population and Development, which on Monday opened a week-long session in New York, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "stressed the need to provide reproductive health care for young people, as well as give them access to the necessary information and the means to protect themselves from sexual abuse and violence," the U.N. News Centre reports. Ban "underlined the importance of combating HIV/AIDS among youth, lowering the rates of teenage pregnancies, and protecting children from early marriage," the news service writes (4/23). "In order to empower the youth of the world, said Ban, the international community must ensure that they have jobs and resources, including reproductive health care," Xinhua/Mysinchew.com notes (4/23). |
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