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Emergency Efforts are Giving Displaced Women More Options in Darfur

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calendar_today22 July 2005

SOUTH DARFUR, Sudan—When she fled from violence a year ago, Fatima Hashem Ali had little idea that she would soon regain part of her previous life.

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Jambi Huasi – Health Care that Speaks to Indigenous Communities in Ecuador

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calendar_today21 July 2005

OTAVALO, Ecuador —Most of the residents of this city, sprawled across a high plateau in the Andes, are Quechua-speaking descendents of the Incas.

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Youth: Changing Attitudes, Improving Lives in Ecuador

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calendar_today21 July 2005

ECUADOR—Cradled in an emerald green valley high in the Andes Mountains in southeast Ecuador, the town of Zamora doesn’t look like it’s on the ‘cutting edge’ of anything.

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The Ecuador Free Maternity Law: Crucial Advance for Reproductive Health and Rights

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calendar_today21 July 2005

ECUADOR—Ecuador's Parliament passed a landmark piece of legislation in 1998.

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World Population Day 2005: Observances Around the World

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calendar_today20 July 2005

A number of events, held by UNFPA and its partners on World Population Day, 11 July, raised awareness of population and development issues worldwide.

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Meeting Women's Needs, Supporting Aceh's Future

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calendar_today24 June 2005

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—The people of Aceh are eager to get their lives back.

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UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Becomes Youngest Portuguese to Win National Honour

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calendar_today10 June 2005

LISBON, Portugal—Portuguese actress and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, Catarina Furtado, has been awarded Portugal's "Ordem de Mérito – Comendador," as part of her country's national day celebrations in…

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Voices of Youth on HIV/AIDS

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calendar_today03 June 2005

UNITED NATIONS, New York—To win the battle against HIV and AIDS, it is crucial that young people be seen as actors, rather than spectators, and as part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.

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Preventing HIV Among Gang Members, Migrants, Youth in Central America and the Caribbean

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calendar_today31 May 2005

San Pedro Sula, Honduras—How do you reach gang-members in Belize, migrants in Guatemala and school dropouts in Honduras with information about preventing HIV?

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Two Seattle Volunteers Making a Difference in the Fight Against Fistula

calendar_today30 May 2005

In January 2004, millions of Americans tuned in to the Oprah Winfrey Show and learned of a little-known childbearing injury called obstetric fistula.

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El Salvador: Preventing Children from Having Children

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calendar_today19 May 2005

SOYAPANGO, El Salvador — "I don’t want to spoil my future by repeating the mistakes my mother made", says 16-year-old Karla.

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Laotian Youth Teach Peers to Protect Their Reproductive Health

location_onLao People's Democratic Republic

calendar_today02 May 2005

PHONTONG, Saravan Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic—A visiting health education team has set up a stage and loudspeakers, and the whole village has come to watch.