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Providing Support to Sudanese Returning Home to Vote
South Sudan
JUBA, Southern Sudan — Tens of thousands of Sudanese citizens are on the move, returning from the North to the South to participate in a referendum that will determine whether the South will secede.
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New Research Analyzes Intersections between Women’s Rights, Religion and Politics
UNFPA has been a leader in applying cultural fluency to development and in garnering support from faith-based organizations to help carry out its mandate.
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UN Secretary-General Welcomes the New Year and New Executive Director with Visit to UNFPA
<p>NEW YORK — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took time out of his busy schedule yesterday to visit UNFPA, personally wish staff a happy New Year, thank them for their work and welcome the new UNFPA Executive…
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Taking Stock: Chad’s Population and Housing Census
Chad
It is difficult to analyze demographic and reproductive health trends for Chad, one of the world’s poorest countries. That’s because so many data points are missing.
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New Video Captures the Recovery Efforts for Survivors of Pakistan’s Floods
Pakistan
More than five months after one of the worst floods in history, millions of people in Pakistan remain displaced and living without basic necessities.
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UNFPA’s Work to Save Mothers’ Lives Featured in New Series on Global Health
NEW YORK — UNFPA’s work to promote maternal health in humanitarian emergencies will be prominently featured on the first programme in a new ABC News series that examines the health issues that disproportionately afflict…
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NGOs and UNFPA Join Forces to Place Population Dynamics on Global Sustainable Development Agenda
NEW YORK — Representatives from 20 non-governmental organizations and UNFPA staff met today to build partnerships to advocate for the inclusion of population issues into the agendas of upcoming international…
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Thoraya Obaid, Leader Who Inspires, Leads from the Front Says UN Secretary-General
UNITED NATIONS, New York—United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that UNFPA’s Thoraya Ahmed Obaid will be remembered for her global leadership on human rights, reproductive health and the empowerment of…
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Dealing with the Legacy of Sexual Violence in Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
<p>In the summer of 1992, Sreko Simic, one of Bosnia’s leading gynaecologists, worked without electricity, anaesthetics, or oxygen and with only a skeleton staff, to keep delivering babies at Sarajevo’s University…
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To be a Woman in Nepal
Nepal
NEPALGANJ, Nepal — The beauty that conjures images of Shangri-la for many tourists and trekkers belies the grim reality that Nepalese women face.
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Manual on Human Rights-based Approach to Programming Launched
UNITED NATIONS, New York --- A new manual on how to apply and promote human rights in all development work—including in humanitarian settings and difficult contexts -- was launched the day before Human Rights Day.
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Preventing Cervical Cancer, a Leading Cause of Women’s Death in Many Developing Countries
Nicaragua
NEW YORK — While mortality from cervical cancer has been curbed among women in developed countries, it remains a major killer of women in the developing world.
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