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From the Empower Brochure
Two thirds of the world’s 960 million illiterate adults are women
Young women are 1.6 times more likely to be living with HIV/AIDS than young men
80% of refugees are women and children.
One in three women worldwide has been beaten, raped or abused in her lifetime.
Seventy per cent of the 1.1 billion people living in absolute poverty are women
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