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Wonca Endorses 10 Steps to Gender Equity
Wonca News: An International Forum for Family Doctors, Volume 33, Number 6; December 2007, p.7
"In the past decade, Wonca joined the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and other influential international bodies in recognizing gender as a key determinant of the health of individuals and their societies. Wonca, whose mission is to improve the quality of life of the peoples of the world, endorsed the Beijing Platform for Action in Durban in 2001, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Singapore in 2001, both strong declarations of the critical need for the empowerment of women to achieve optimal health and quality of life..."