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Domestic Violence Awareness Month
October 2008

In its various forms, sexual and gender-based violence is endemic in communities around the world, cutting across class, race, age, religion, and national boundaries. Poor, uneducated, and young women are especially vulnerable. Exposure to gender-based violence and sexual coercion significantly increases girls’ and women’s chances of early sexual debut, experiencing forced sex, engaging in transactional sex, and failing to negotiate condom use.

Population Council projects are helping to prevent sexual and gender-based violence and treat its survivors. Thousands have benefited from the Council’s projects, and millions more will benefit as we share lessons learned through a wide network of organizations, spreading “best practices” across the developing world. (more)

Consider this: 33 percent of women around the world have been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in their lifetime.

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Annual Report 2007

Population and Development Review, September

Population and Development Review supplement: Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth (more) (contents)

Studies in Family Planning, September

Momentum, September • Population Briefs, August

Report: "Study of sexually transmitted infections among urban men in Pakistan: Identifying the bridging population" (PDF)

Brief: "Informed consent in HIV prevention trials: Highlights from an international workshop" (PDF in English) (PDF en español) (PDF en français) (PDF no português) (PDF in Swahili) (PDF in Zulu)

Poverty, Gender, and Youth Working Paper:
"Marriage considerations in sending girls to school in Bangladesh: Some qualitative evidence" (abstract) (PDF)

Briefs: Promoting Healthy, Safe, and Productive Transitions to Adulthood (more)

The Population Council mourns the death of Dr. Allan Rosenfield. (more)

Planned Parenthood Federation of America has honored distinguished Council reproductive health scientist Irving Sivin. (more)

The Population Council and Council Distinguished Scholar Sheldon J. Segal have been awarded the 2008 Prix Galien USA Pro Bono Humanum Award. (more) Segal also recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Family Planning (more)

Population Council Trustee Wafaa El-Sadr has been awarded a $500,000 genius grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. (offsite link)