Millions of people around the world are denied fundamental freedoms simply because they are women. On every hemisphere women face serious obstacles in obtaining equal education, health care, legal rights and employment.
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| 70 percent of the world's 1.3 billion poor are women. |
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| Two-thirds of the illiterate adults in the world are women and two-thirds of the children not in school today are girls. |
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| 60 million women who should be alive today are "missing" because of violence associated with gender discrimination. |
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| Every year an estimated 4 million women and girls are bought and sold worldwide. |
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| Every month of every year, over 40,000 women in developing nations die from pregnancy related causes. Through education, service and advocacy programs Zonta International works to overcome these challenges and to advance the status of women worldwide.
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