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Article: POPULATION-U.N.: BATTLE TO LIBERALIZE ABORTION LAWS UNDECIDED
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- February 10, 1999
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Farhan Haq
Inter Press Service English News Wire
02-10-1999
THE HAGUE, Feb. 10 (IPS) -- Activists attending this week's
population forum proudly acknowledge victories made in securing
reproductive rights in the five years since 179 governments
attended the International Conference on Population and Development
(ICPD) at Cairo.
Yet one topic during discussions here Feb. 8-12 cannot easily
be categorized in terms of victory or defeat: abortion laws.
Women's rights advocates present at the Hague Forum, designed
to review progress in reproductive rights and population issues
since Cairo, reported victories in the effort to make abortion
legal and available in some countries - most recently in South