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WE MOVED !!! OUR NEW LOCATION IS
411 ROOSEVELT AVE., SUITE 310, OTTAWA, K2A 3X9
ALL OTHER CONTACT INFORMATION REMAINS THE SAME . . .
Telephone: 613.238.1312
Fax: 613.238.6867
email: info@matchinternational.org
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Women working with women. That’s what it’s all about.We are MATCH because ...
70% of the 1.3 billion people living in poverty around the world are women.(1)
Women do about 66% of the world's work in return for less than 5% of its income. (2)
2/3 of the children denied primary education are girls while 75% of the 876 million illiterate adults in the world are women. (3)
Women log 2/3 of the world's working hours and produce half of the world's food, yet earn only 10% of the world's income and own less than 1% of the world's property. (4)
90% of casualties of armed conflicts since 1945 have been civilians, 3/4 of which are women and children – there are over 35 major conflicts going on in the world today.
60 million are people displaced by conflict and disaster worldwide, 75% of whom are women and children who often face hardships like sexual violence and abuse. (5)
1 in 4 women worldwide will experience rape or sexual violence in her lifetime while 25-75% of women are beaten regularly at home, depending on the country. (6)
Over 120 million women have endured female genital mutilation. (7)
More than half a million women die every year while giving birth – one per minute – mostly in developing countries.
Women hold only 12% of parliamentary seats worldwide.
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(1) source: World Revolution
(2) source: Women’s International Network
(3) source: AskWoman
(4) source: World Development Indicators, 1997, Womankind Worldwide
(5) source: UN WomenWatch
(6) source: 2006 UN Report on Violence Against Women
(7) ibid
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