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New Studies Show How Violence Against Women Can Be Stopped
26 February 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Rape in Mauritania, domestic violence in Mexico and Romania, child marriage in Bangladesh, and female genital mutilation/cutting in Kenya are just a few of the abuses visited on women and girls explored in a new United Nations Population Fund report released today in New York.</p>
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UNFPA Warns of New Trends in Female Genital Mutilation
05 February 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today warned against the “medicalization” of female genital mutilation/cutting.</p>
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Record Number of Countries Contribute Record Amount to UNFPA in 2006
15 January 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — In 2006, 180 countries around the world contributed a total of $360 million to the regular resources of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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EC and UNFPA to Boost Zimbabwe's HIV Prevention Efforts
10 January 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>HARARE, Zimbabwe</strong> — The European Commission and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, have committed 5.66 million euros to support the behavioural change component of Zimbabwe’s new national strategic plan on HIV and AIDS.</p>
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UNFPA Welcomes Adoption of Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
15 December 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today welcomed the adoption by the world community of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - the first global human rights treaty to elaborate the rights of disabled persons and to specifically mention the right to sexual and reproductive health.</p>
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Joint Statement on Kenyan and Ugandan Trial Findings Regarding Male Circumcision and HIV
13 December 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>GENEVA</strong> — The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and its Cosponsors, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF and the World Bank, note with considerable interest today’s announcement by the US National Institutes of Health that two trials assessing the impact of male circumcision on HIV risk are being stopped on the recommendation of the NIH Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB).</p>
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New Vaccine Against Cervical Cancer: Major Opportunity for Developing World
12 December 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>LONDON/GENEVA</strong> — The introduction of a new vaccine against Human Papillomavirus (HPV), the virus that causes cervical cancer, could have a major impact on the health of women in the developing world.</p>
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Half of the World's Pregnant Women Still Lack Access to Skilled Care at Childbirth
12 December 2006
<p> <strong>HAMMAMET, Tunisia</strong> — Midwives and public health experts from 20 countries around the world are gathering here today for the first-ever International Forum on “Midwifery in the Community.”</p>
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Major European Commission Contribution to Facilitate Afghanistan's First Ever Census
07 December 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — The European Commission has contributed 15 million euros to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to help organize Afghanistan’s first full population census that will provide primary information on the number and characteristics of the country’s population.</p>
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UNFPA Requests $20 Million to Assist Crisis-Stricken Populations in 29 Countries in 2007
01 December 2006
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is requesting that international donors contribute $20 million for projects to address the urgent reproductive health needs of refugees, internally displaced persons and others affected by conflict or natural disaster.</p>
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West African Youth Commit to a Better Future
30 November 2006
<p> <strong>BISSAU, Guinea Bissau</strong> — More than 80 youth representatives from 10 West African countries pledged Friday to improve the lives of their peers throughout the region by undertaking measures to improve sexual and reproductive health, encourage education, work towards poverty al</p>
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Zimbabwe Filmmaker Takes First Prize in Film Festival
27 November 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>DAKAR, Senegal</strong> — Zimbabwean filmmaker Tawanda Gunda-Mupengo took home the $1,000 first prize in the continent’s largest Pan African Film Festival devoted to Gender Based Violence (GBV).</p>
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