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Business at the clinic is winding down. It's 10.30am on Thursday and the six women and three men sitting on the rows of blue plastic chairs and wooden benches are waiting to be seen before the doctor leaves in half an hour's time. On the walls are large posters listing methods of contraception; diagrams of how to spot possible signs of breast and cervical cancer, and how to breastfeed a child. It's stiflingly hot; the three ceiling fans do little to cool the air. Two morning sessions with the doctor are held at Pudu clinic, a 25-minute drive from the centre of Kuala Lumpur. The clinic offers a range of medical services, but focuses on providing family planning and reproductive healthcare to marginalised groups.
Health outreach programme brings migrants in from Malaysia's margins | Liz Ford | Global development
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Asia-Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for the General Assembly High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development 2013 Item 4 Bangkok, 29-31 May 2013 We wish to thank the Member States and Secretariat of ESCAP, IOM, and members of the Asia-Pacific RCM Thematic Working Group on International Migration, including Human Trafficking, for giving civil society an opportunity to share our thoughts today. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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The New Guest Workers: Germany Must Offer Its New Migrants a Reason To Stay
The generation of Carolina López, Enrico Orselli and Emilia Cincu is coming to Germany because Europe's biggest economy is stable.
While it’s International Women’s Day tomorrow, many of us at infoDev are trying every day to make women, specifically women innovators, central to our strategy of supporting high-growth entrepreneurs in developing countries. But this is easier said than done as women are notoriously under-represented in tech-related industries and even more so in the area that I work in – clean technology – which is largely manufacturing and therefore male, dominated.
7 ways to support the next wave of women-led innovation in Ethiopia
Mali chaos gives rise to slavery, persecution
When radical Islamists in northern Mali began chopping off the hands of accused thieves and stoning unwed couples to death, the world was shocked by the brutality. But few noticed exactly who the victims were. The first to be persecuted were Mali’s most vulnerable people: the descendants of slaves.
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Page 3: Transcript: What Obama and Romney Said about Immigration During the Second Presidential Debate
Vor 50 Jahren begann die Geschichte der Arbeitsmigration nach Österreich. Eine Gruppe aus Historikern und Migrationsexperten fordert nun ein Archiv der Migration. Ein neuer Blick auf die österreichische Geschichte der vergangenen Jahrzehnte sei notwendig: Migration und Migranten müssten in ihr sichtbar gemacht werden.