And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: <A HREF="http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr99/1999L-04-07-09.html">http://ens.lycos.com /ens/apr99/1999L-04-07-09.html</A> ======================================================= NEW YORK WOMEN SAY ALL WOMEN AT ENVIRONMENTAL RISK At the United Nations last week, WEDO, the New York City based Women's Environment and Development Organization founded by the late Bella Abzug, announced the findings of its new report on women's health and access to services around the world. "Risks, Rights and Reforms: A 50-Country Survey Assessing Government Actions Five Years After the International Conference on Population and Development" warns that economic policies aimed at curbing public spending negatively affect reproductive health services in most countries. "Our latest findings should sound a global alarm," says Jocelyn Dow, WEDO's chair. "They are a call to reverse disturbing economic, environmental and political trends that threaten the health and sustainability of our increasingly vulnerable planet. Seventy percent of countries surveyed say user fees in public health systems make reproductive health services unaffordable for the poor. Eighty-two percent of countries surveyed, including the U.S. and nations in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, report increasing pesticide exposure. Forty-four percent of countries report reproductive health disorders as a result of workplace hazards. One in three women in the U.S. will develop cancer sometime during her lifetime. Nuclear contamination in parts of Russia has led to a 21 percent increase in cancer. A third of countries surveyed report incidence of breast milk contamination from pesticides and other toxins. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
