Events

Nordic Talks

calendar_today03 June 2021

location_onZoom

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Generation Equality Forum: Action Coalition on Bodily Autonomy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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News

Elopement or kidnapping? A love story in Afghanistan

calendar_today13 April 2021

Many young people in Afghanistan have no say over whether or whom to marry. Pictured: a ring belonging to one Afghan child bride. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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News

Bodily autonomy: Busting 7 myths that undermine individual rights and freedoms

calendar_today14 April 2021

A survivor of childhood violence in Ghana, during a conversation about her experience. Violations of bodily autonomy can leave lasting emotional scars. © UNFPA/George Koranteng
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Events

The Power to Say Yes, the Right to Say No

calendar_today29 March 2021

location_onZoom, Facebook Live

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News

We must empower women and girls to claim their bodily autonomy, leaders affirm

calendar_today19 March 2021

Catarina Furtado visits a new mother in a maternity ward. The right to make essential choices, such as when and whether to become a parent, and to see a doctor, must be realized for all, she said. Image courtesy of Catarina Furtado.
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News

Child marriage, female genital mutilation urgent priorities as pandemic threatens progress

calendar_today01 February 2021

Fethiye says staff at a UNFPA safe space helped convince her family to let her go to school rather than be wed. © UNFPA Türkiye
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News

After devastating birth injuries, 33 women’s lives transformed

calendar_today14 July 2017

A young woman at a fistula-repair campaign in Batouri, Cameroon. Obstetric fistula is a life-altering childbirth injury that afflicts the world's most marginalized women. But it can be repaired – and prevented. © UNFPA Cameroon/Olive Bonga
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