pretty girls

The report by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the U.N. children’s agency (UNICEF) and the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) blamed high pregnancy rates on a lack of access to contraception and high levels of sexual violence against girls. The PAHO is the World Health Organization’s regional body. The report found there were 66.5 births per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19 from 2010 to 2015 across the region compared to 46 births per 1,000 girls in the same age group worldwide. It said teenage girls with only primary education or no education were up to four times more likely than girls with secondary or higher education to start having children. The report said governments must improve efforts to combat rape of girls, and highlighted a lack of post-rape care and emergency contraception, as well as restrictive abortion laws. “Adolescent girls must be protected from sexual violence, and efforts must includ