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Dear Friends:

YOUR URGENT ACTION IS NEEDED FOR THE UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND (UNFPA) !

PLEASE CALL AND E-MAIL CONGRESS TODAY!

SUPPORT THE “CROWLEY PROVISION” IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AUTHORIZATION (HOUSE RESOLUTION 1950) FOR FISCAL YEAR 2004/2005.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) urgently needs your help to provide reproductive health services for women around the world, and also to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

The UNFPA addresses reproductive health and population issues by:

Ø Working to ensure universal access to reproductive healthcare.

Ø Mobilizing resources for existing and future population programs.

Ø Promoting awareness for population and development issues.

UNFPA helps millions of women and teenagers, like Zohal, 16, who is now able to study in Afghanistan. In a July forum to celebrate World Population Day, UNFPA officials and government leaders acknowledged the need for reproductive rights and services for one billion adolescents worldwide.

Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. She is the first Saudi Arabian national to head a United Nations agency. See her bio, http://www.unfpa.org/ed/bio.htm.

On Tuesday, July 15, a critical vote is likely in the U.S. House of Representatives on the funding for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY) has added a provision to House Resolution 1950 that ensures strict safeguards in family planning programs, including those for China, and clarifies current law so that UNFPA can receive U.S. funds.

The Crowley amendment was approved by the House International Relations Committee, but the “Smith-Hyde Amendment” would delete the Crowley provision from the bill.

Please call and e-mail your Congressional Representative immediately.

Show your support of U.S. funding for UNFPA, and ask for a vote AGAINST the Smith-Hyde amendment.

Please call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3131 to be connected to the office of your representative. If the line is busy, keep trying or email.

You can also find the direct number for your House member at http://www.house.gov/.

PLEASE CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND URGE HER OR HIM TO:

OPPOSE THE “SMITH-HYDE AMENDMENT”

AND TO VOTE FOR FULL FUNDING FOR UNFPA.

For more information, you may visit, www.UNFPA.org.

Send this e-mail to your friends and family and ask them to join our effort.

Please help the women of the developing world.

-- Max