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<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 color=maroon
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;
font-weight:bold'>UNFPA: State of the World Population 200</span></font></b><b><font
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:
bold'>6</span></font></b><b><font color=maroon face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><i><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>A Passage to Hope<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><i><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Women and International Migration<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399;
font-weight:bold'>UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, </span></font></b><b><font
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:
bold'>September 2006</span></font></b><b><font color="#333399" face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:#333399;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>Full
Report PDF file [116p.] at: <a
href="http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/pdf/en_sowp06.pdf"><font color="#333399"><span
style='color:#333399'>http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/pdf/en_sowp06.pdf</span></font></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=bodytext style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>“….Today,
half of all international migrants—95 million—are women and girls.
Yet, despite substantial contributions to both their families at home and
communities abroad, the needs of migrant women continue to be overlooked and
ignored. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=bodytext style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>This
year’s <i><span style='font-style:italic'>State of World Population</span></i>
report, <a href="http://www.unfpa.org/swp/index.html"><i><font color="#333399"><span
style='color:#333399;font-style:italic'>A Passage to Hope: Women and
International Migration</span></font></i></a>, examines the scope and breadth
of female migration, the impact of the funds they send home to support families
and communities, and their disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking,
exploitation and abuse. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=bodytext style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>The
report, produced and published every year by UNFPA, the United Nations
Population Fund, reveals that although migrant women contribute billions of
dollars in cash and services, policymakers continue to disregard both their
contributions and their vulnerability—even though female migrants tend to
send a much higher proportion of their lower earnings back home than their male
counterparts ….”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'>Content: </span></font></b><font color=navy face=Arial><span
lang=FR style='font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><font
color="#333399" face=Arial><span lang=FR style='font-family:Arial;color:#333399'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=1 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>Introduction:
<a href="http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/english/introduction.html"><font
color="#333399"><span style='color:#333399'>http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/english/introduction.html</span></font></a></span></font><b><font
size=1 color="#3d5d86" face=Verdana><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#3D5D86;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=1 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'><a
href="http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/english/chapter_1/index.html"><font
color="#333399"><span style='color:#333399'>The Good, The Bad, The Promising:
Migration in the 21st Century</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=1 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'><a
href="http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/english/chapter_2/index.html"><font
color="#333399"><span style='color:#333399'>A Mighty but Silent River; Women
and Migration</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=1 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'><a
href="http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/english/chapter_3/index.html"><font
color="#333399"><span style='color:#333399'>Selling Hope and Stealing Dreams:
Trafficking in Women and the Exploitation of Domestic Workers</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=1 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'><a
href="http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/english/chapter_4/index.html"><font
color="#333399"><span style='color:#333399'>By Force, Not by Choice: Refugee
Women and Asylum-Seekers</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=1 color="#333399"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'><a
href="http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/english/chapter_5/index.html"><font
color="#333399"><span style='color:#333399'>Safeguarding Human Rights,
Embracing Cultural Diversity</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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