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• Report calls on government to act now - 30 March 2007
  A hard-hitting report from the cross-party New Zealand Parliamentarians’ Group on Population and Development (NZPPD) calls for the government to act now to prioritise youth sexual and reproductive health.
  
  
• Open hearing on youth SRH - 27 November 2006
  An open hearing on 4 December will give ministries, NGOs and health professionals an opportunity to speak frankly to MPs about sexual and reproductive health issues for youth in New Zealand.
  
  
• Report recommends action to fight poverty in PNG - 19 October 2006
  A report released this week by the cross-party New Zealand Parliamentarians’ Group on Population and Development (NZPPD), makes recommendations to New Zealand, Australian and Papua New Guinean MPs and the international donor community of action needed to fight poverty in Papua New Guinea.
  
  
• Progress for women is progress for all - 1 June 2006
  More than 80 women parliamentarians and ministers from Asia and the Pacific are meeting in Wellington next week to formulate a collective action plan to address gender disparities in the region.
  
  
• Political leadership critical in PNG - 18 April 2006
  Three MPs have returned from a study tour to Papua New Guinea with the message that political leadership is critical if the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are to be achieved in that country.
  
  
• MP study tour explores RH and poverty links - 28 March 2006
  Three New Zealand MPs are visiting Papua New Guinea in April on a study tour focusing on poverty in the Pacific, and related issues including HIV/AIDS, gender inequality, maternal and child health, and the environment.  
  
  
• Decision-making power for women is key - 6 March 2006
  Rotorua MP Steve Chadwick has welcomed a call by the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for participation by women at all levels of decision-making.
  
  

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Did you know that every minute around the world...
•	one woman dies from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
•	10 teenage girls undergo an unsafe abortion.
•	13 infants under 12 months die
•	57 people catch an STI
•	11 people are infected with HIV
•	the population increases by 150 people

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