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17 June 2019
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Meet the woman protecting women in Yemen
SANA'A, Yemen – Bushra was only 14 years old when her family arranged a child marriage to an older man, and a year later she became pregnant. She was a…
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28 May 2019
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Four reasons menstruation is a human rights issue
Over a woman’s lifetime, she could easily spend three to eight years menstruating. Misconceptions and mismanagement of menstruation can hamper women’s ability to…
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23 May 2019
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The Youth Forum in the Arab Region 2019: Call for youth participation
The Youth Forum in the Arab Region 2019 Tunis, Tunisia, 20-22 August, 2019 CALL FOR YOUTH PARTICPATION Deadline: 09 June 2019 (17:00 pm GMT+2/ Cairo Time) * …
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21 May 2019
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A long road to safety, healing for refugee mothers in Iraq
DOMIZ 2, Iraq – “I never thought I would have to start over,” Nermin* told UNFPA from Domiz 2 Camp in Iraq. She was 21 when she was uprooted from…
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15 May 2019
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Three reasons why the ICPD matters to you
The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) took place in Cairo in 1994. 179 world leaders reached a consensus and adopted a programme of action,…
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05 May 2019
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Midwives— Defenders of Human Rights
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem for the International Day of the Midwife, 5 May 2019 Midwives are public health heroes, ensuring that a woman can have…
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11 April 2019
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UNFPA Algeria CO-participation on April 11th, 2019 to the workshop on the evaluation of the manual “I become literate with the non-violence culture”
UNFPA Algeria CO has participated to the evaluation of the manual untitled “I erase my illiteracy with the culture of non-violence.” workshop held in Algiers, on the 11th April…
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10 April 2019
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World must work harder to secure sexual and reproductive rights for all, says new UNFPA report
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 10 April 2019— The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women,…
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26 October 2017
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The place of demographic dividend in the sustainable development goals
UNFPA ASRO Regional Director, Dr Luay Shabaneh was invited by the National Institute of Global Strategy Studies in Algiers, Algeria to deliver a lecture at a conference on the…
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