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Finding a role model amid confinement of Myanmar’s Rohingya camps

calendar_today31 July 2018

Me Me teaches adolescent girls in the camp about their health and human rights, and helps them understand their own potential. © UNFPA Myanmar
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Accelerating and Amplifying Change

Publisher

UNFPA, UNICEF

Publication date

2018

Author

UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage

Number of pages

107

Annual Report

Accelerating and Amplifying Change

2017 Annual Report for the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage

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News

Ethiopian girls learn the skills they need to thrive – and secure their independence

calendar_today29 August 2018

Salia, now 18, tends to animals to provide for herself and her family. Just two years ago, Salia thought she would be a child bride. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw
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In Türkiye, refugee child marriages drive adolescent pregnancies underground

calendar_today26 July 2018

Pregnant child brides need extra attention, says Huda, a UNFPA midwife in the Hayati Harrani women's and girl's safe space. “But our hands are tied because so few come for care.” © UNFPA Türkiye/Usenabasi Esiet
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News

Midwives deployed to remote Afghanistan to lower maternal death rate

calendar_today10 July 2018

Family health houses are helping midwives provide reproductive health care in far-flung parts of Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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News

After ‘Volcano of Fire’ eruption, women and girls face heightened risks

calendar_today05 July 2018

Women and girls require security, health care and other services in the aftermath of the disaster. © UNFPA Guatemala/Carlos Sebastián
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News

Breaking taboos around sexual and reproductive health in rural Georgia

calendar_today21 June 2018

Young people from the Kakheti region of Georgia participate in peer education training on gender equality and reproductive health and rights. © UNFPA Georgia
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News

This World Refugee Day, recognizing the strength and courage of refugees

calendar_today20 June 2018

Ghalia survived her ordeal thanks to the support of other refugees.© UNFPA
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The Syrian crisis has left hundreds of thousands of adolescent girls vulnerable to child marriage and in need of adequate gender-based violence, sexual education and reproductive health services. UNFPA is helping to fill this void in Jordan, where 42,000 Syrian refugees are girls between the ages of 12 and 17. This is Asma's story. A film by UNFPA Jordan/Elspeth Dehnert.

Publication date

Jun 2018

Author

UNFPA and UNICEF

Resources

Let's End Child Marriage

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