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Karen Rasmussen
Washington, Mexico
Working with hurricane displaced communities in the Guatemalan Highlands showed me how women's lives are negatively impacted without access to education, health care, financial resources, and so on. I now have a degree in Women's Studies and spend my time working on promoting gender equality and empowering women in all areas.
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• Of the world’s 1 billion poorest people, three fifths are women and girls.
• Of the 960 million adults in the world who cannot read, two thirds are women.
• 70% of the 130 million children who are out of school are girls.
• Up to 50% of ALL adult women have experienced violence at the hands of their intimate partners.
• Each year, half a million women DIE and 10 to 15 million suffer chronic disability from preventable complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
UN data
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Karen commented on the article |Thanks for posting this. Karen
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Karen commented on the article |Thanks for sharing. Makes on appreciate how lucky one is simply having a roof over one's head.
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Karen commented on the article |Thanks so much for posting this link Ryan. It lays out the issues very well.
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