Despite their corpulence, sea lions are very vulnerable. Their fins are useless in protecting them from poachers who bludgeon the males to death to extract their genitals to be sold in Asia, where they are considered an aphrodisiac by some cultures.
Significant progress has been made in our time fighting discrimination against women and working for equal rights and the full participation of women in the development of communities and nations, indeed of our entire globalised world, writes Gro Harlem Brundtland, director-general of the World Heath Organisation.
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