Ensuring the Reproductive Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Legal and Policy Issues

International Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 167-173

  Girard, Françoise ^b   Waldman, Wilhelmina ^a  

^a International Women's Health Coalition   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0347898757     PISSN: 01622749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2648254     Document Type: Article

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