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The article offers world news briefs related to social condition of women as of March 1, 2016. It mentions that as per study of World Health Organization and World Bank, maternal death has declined between 1990 and 2015. It states that Supreme Court of Japan has dismissed a discrimination claim allowing women to keep their birth surname after marriage. It informs that the European Union has approved a measure in its 2016 budget that bypasses the 1973 U.S. Helms Amendment.