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“I am a prey to all men”: Refugee women endure poverty, harassment, isolation

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Muna was left to fend for her children alone in the Domiz refugee camp in Iraq. © UNFPA Iraq/Khetam Malkawi

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Giving birth upright, with maté – Peru clinics open arms to indigenous women

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This woman's second childbirth experience was totally different from her first, she says, because she was able to deliver in the traditional vertical position. © Panorama/Carlos Gomez

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Astrologers, shamans and priests mobilize against child marriage in Nepal

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Three women with their children in Far Western Nepal. All of the women were child brides. © UNFPA Nepal/Santosh Chhetri

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Organizations raise alarm over “global contraceptive crisis”

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Nurse adviser Clementine Denagmi offers family planning counseling at a clinic run by the Benin Family Planning Association in Cotonou, Benin. © UNFPA/Ollivier Girard

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Companies pledge to help reduce childbirth deaths in crisis settings

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Residents flee brutal violence in the Rutshuru territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2012. Women give birth, even in wartime and disasters. © UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti

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African presidents urge investment in youth as continent sees rare demographic opportunity

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World Bank Vice President Keith Hansen, President Idriss Déby of Chad, President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin and moderator Folly Bah Thibault (left to right) at a high-level dialogue on achieving the demographic dividend. © UNFPA/Koye Adeboye

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World leaders adopt ground-breaking plan to address refugee and migrant crisis

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A ground-breaking declaration on the rights of migrants and refugees was adopted today at the United Nations General Assembly. © UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

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Saving lives through mentoring

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https://youtu.be/rRIDGDT2P2g

Saving lives through mentoring

In Burkina Faso, a mentoring programme for midwives is saving the lives of women and newborns.

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As displacements soar, Juba’s burdened clinics improvise to keep childbirth safe

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A midwife delivers a baby at a health facility in Juba. At UNFPA-supported health facilities in Juba's protection camps, many of the midwives are themselves displaced people. © UNFPA South Sudan/Arlene Calaguian Alano

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Aug 2016

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UNFPA and UNICEF

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Annual Report

2015 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: Metrics of Progress, Moments of Change

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“I am a prey to all men”: Refugee women endure poverty, harassment, isolation

Giving birth upright, with maté – Peru clinics open arms to indigenous women

Astrologers, shamans and priests mobilize against child marriage in Nepal

Organizations raise alarm over “global contraceptive crisis”

Companies pledge to help reduce childbirth deaths in crisis settings

African presidents urge investment in youth as continent sees rare demographic opportunity

World leaders adopt ground-breaking plan to address refugee and migrant crisis

Saving lives through mentoring

As displacements soar, Juba’s burdened clinics improvise to keep childbirth safe

2015 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: Metrics of Progress, Moments of Change

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