The number of women dying from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth has almost halved since 1990, a global report has revealed.
A global report launched at the conference found there were 3.9 billion smokers aged 15 and over in WHO member states in 2010.
Nearly two-thirds of the world's illiterate adults are women, a proportion that has remained stubbornly unchanged for the past 20 years, according to a global report assessing progress towards gender equality, published on Tuesday.
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Last week, the US state department noted in a global report on human rights that in 2011, Israel had approved just one asylum application out of 4,603 made during the course of the year.
On Monday, the US state department released a global report on religious freedom that criticised the authorities in Xinjiang for their "repressive restrictions on religious practices" and failure to "distinguish between peaceful religious practice and criminal or terrorist activities".
Dr. Djoghlaf said that a global report on the status of biodiversity in cities is now being prepared and will be submitted to a city summit meeting to be held in Singapore in June 2012.
Self-harm is the largest cause of death among 20- to 24-year-olds in the UK, followed by road injuries, the two causes together responsible for 650 deaths in 2013, according to a global report that finds that the health of young people at a critical stage in their development has been neglected for decades.
While we may have fared well in the medal tables, we also ranked with the world leaders in slothfulness, according to a global report published in the Lancet, which as well as naming and shaming the worst offenders, demonstrated that physical inactivity was responsible for 9% of premature deaths and 6-106-10%cases of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancer worldwide.
