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How Do You Talk To Youth About The Facts Of Life, How Do You Start The Conversation?

location_onNigeria

calendar_today11 March 2003

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, helped launch a booklet to guide communications between parents and youth on sensitive matters in order to save adolescents’ lives by avoiding problems such as HIV/AIDS.

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Experts Document Devastating Impact of War on Women

calendar_today05 March 2003

“Women’s bodies have become a battleground over which opposing forces struggle,” says a new report about women in conflict.

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Human Rights Promoted in India with Classical Dance and Poetry

location_onIndia

calendar_today05 March 2003

Early in February, the India office of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, organized an event in Delhi to explore reproductive rights, including the rights of women.

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World Should Rejoice Girls' Births The Way It Celebrates Boys', Says UNFPA Executive Director

location_onSierra Leone

calendar_today05 March 2003

<p class="bodytext"> <b>NEW YORK</b> - The Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, has urged all nations to intensify their efforts to improve…

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Experts Plan Reproductive Health Response as HIV/AIDS Compounds Food Crisis in Southern Africa

location_onSouth Africa

calendar_today26 February 2003

CAPE TOWN - When erratic weather in Southern Africa precipitated food shortages last year, they were initially blamed entirely on drought and, in some cases, misguided policies.

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Executive Board Approves 23 UNFPA Programmes, Members Express Strong Support for Fund

calendar_today21 January 2003

<p>The Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and of the United Nations Population Fund approved 23 programmes on Tuesday, 21 January.</p>

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Congolese Military and Police Launch New War - Against AIDS

location_onDemocratic Republic of the Congo

calendar_today20 December 2002

KINSHASA -- Even as it prepares to implement a peace accord signed earlier this week to end Africa's widest war, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is mobilizing its troops to combat an enemy potentially…

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Lawmakers to Meet in Ottawa to Promote Reproductive Health and Rights

location_onCanada

calendar_today19 November 2002

OTTAWA - Over 130 parliamentarians from all over the world will gather in Ottawa, Canada, this week to identify actions they can take to promote reproductive rights and expand access to reproductive health care (…

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Response to Southern African Food Crisis Must Include Safe Motherhood and HIV/AIDS Prevention, UN Population Fund Urges

location_onMalawi

calendar_today30 October 2002

Katibula, Mchinji District, Malawi  -In this village at the centre of Southern Africa's "perfect storm", where hunger, poverty and AIDS reinforce each other like elements of a gathering hurricane, the…

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The Power of One Idea and One Dollar

calendar_today14 October 2002

When Jane Roberts of Redlands, California, sat down at her computer to express her outrage at the United States decision to withdraw $34 million from UNFPA, she had no idea that a campaign had been born.

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Assisting Births Around the Clock: Emergency Mobile Hospital To Open in Kabul

location_onAfghanistan

calendar_today14 August 2002

KABUL - On a dusty football field about 700 yards from Khair Khana Maternity Hospital in northern Kabul, a team of Danish engineers, medical technicians and Afghan personnel have been working tirelessly since early…

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The Poor Shall Always Be With Us

location_onNicaragua

calendar_today25 July 2002

Wendy Medina Sanchez was a pretty girl once. No longer. Now she looks as haggard and worn out as her unwashed second-hand clothes. Her long black hair is dull and lifeless and crawling with lice.