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Surviving Gaza: The silent struggles of adolescent girls
- 23 January 2025
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Aiming high in Mexico
Young leaders show how sex education can lead to brighter futures
Gladis, 16, in Puebla, Mexico.
All images © UNFPA/Celia D. Luna
03 March 2025
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Empowering young people in Ecuador to understand their bodies and defend their rights
- 04 September 2023
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Youth-friendly services scaling up in Kazakhstan, offering critical sexual and reproductive health care
- 17 May 2023
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After an adolescent pregnancy drove them apart, here’s how one family in Rwanda reconnected
- 02 November 2022
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UNFPA research reveals that nearly a third of all women in developing countries become mothers during adolescence
05 July 2022
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Publication
Motherhood in Childhood: The Untold Story
Number of pages: 70
Publication date: 27 Jun 2022
Publisher: UNFPA
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Resources
Motherhood in Childhood: The Untold Story Supplementary Material
Resource date: Jun 2022
Publisher: UNFPA
This report examines trends in adolescent childbearing using techniques that focus on the most vulnerable girls, such as child mothers, girls with repeat adolescent childbearing, and births that occur in dangerously quick succession. In using these new measures, it uncovers the untold story of more than 50 years of adolescent childbearing in the world’s low- and middle-income countries.
This Supplementary Material is an annex to the full report.
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Motherhood in Childhood: The Untold Story Executive Summary
Resource date: Jun 2022
Publisher: UNFPA
This report examines trends in adolescent childbearing using techniques that focus on the most vulnerable girls, such as child mothers, girls with repeat adolescent childbearing, and births that occur in dangerously quick succession. In using these new measures, it uncovers the untold story of more than 50 years of adolescent childbearing in the world’s low- and middle- income countries.
This Executive Summary provides an overview of the full report.
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The State of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Publication date: 01 Dec 2019
Author: Mengjia Liang, Sandile Simelane, Guillem Fortuny Fillo, Satvika Chalasani, Katherine Weny, Pablo Salazar Canelos, Lorna Jenkins, Ann-Beth Moller, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Lale Say, Kristien Michielsen, Danielle Marie Claire Engel, Rachel Snow
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