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Community-led enforcement shows the way on ending child marriage in Ethiopia
Ethiopia
A recent arrest in Ethiopia underscores the importance of the Joint UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage.
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Amid conflict, mental health care gives Yemeni survivor of violence a new lease on life
Yemen
This week's International Conference on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Crisis Situations will focus on survivors of trauma and conflict like Salwa.
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Real men respect women, says school for husbands in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Waimbabie Gnoumou is learning to be a better husband, says his wife, Martine. That’s because he is going to a special school that teaches men exactly that. The Husbands and Future Husbands School in Mamboué, a village…
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When health workers harm: the medicalization of female genital mutilation in Egypt
Egypt
“About 75 per cent of female genital mutilation in the country is performed by doctors,” said Dr. Ayman Sadek, an expert on the subject.
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Global efforts show progress on making women and girls feel safe
The Spotlight Initiative reviewed its early achievements at a high-level event on the sidelines of the 74th UN General Assembly.
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Leaders call on world to end scourge of gender violence
Democratic Republic of the Congo
“Much more needs to be done," said Dr. Kanem at a panel discussion on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
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Preventable maternal deaths down from 2000, but rate of progress at a crawl
"The decline is far from adequate,” said UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem. Data from 2017 show that approximately 810 women die each day of preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
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Joy after a frightening preterm delivery in Liberia
Liberia
Out of nine pregnancies, Anna Bondo had suffered seven stillbirths, each one a crushing heartbreak. Last month, pregnant for the tenth time, Ms. Bondo went into an early labour, and immediately feared the worst.
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Life-saving services at risk as humanitarian funding dries up in Yemen
Yemen
Every two hours, a Yemeni woman dies from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
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Urgent support needed for violence-affected women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Thousands of women and girls have been subjected to gender-based violence.
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In this Comorian community, an ambulance horn is music to one’s ears
Comoros
Who has not heard the horn of the Ouzioini ambulance? The ambulance’s distinctive low-pitched horn is a welcome sound to Ouzioini residents, who, until 2011, had to find their own transport to emergency care – at great…
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Ensuring safe deliveries in a humanitarian crisis in Maguindanao
Philippines
Clean delivery kits help displaced women give birth safely in the conflict-affected southern Philippines.
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