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Maternal Health Analysis of Women and Girls of African Descent in the Americas
Number of pages: 27
Publication date: 12 Jul 2023
Publisher: UNFPA, UNICEF, UN-Women, PAHO, NBEC
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“They have to fight”: People of African descent face deadly, systemic racism and sexism in health sectors across the Americas, UNFPA reports
- 12 July 2023
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The threads that bind: How bilum-weaving in Papua New Guinea tells stories from the lives of women and girls
- 05 July 2023
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“We are making a difference”: Advocating against period poverty and female genital mutilation in The Gambia
- 29 May 2023
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In Angola, young people help shatter the stigma around comprehensive sexuality education
- 05 June 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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Advancing Rights, Transforming Lives: Strategic Engagement with the United Nations Human Rights System to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Number of pages: 56
Publication date: 07 Jul 2023
Publisher: UNFPA, Universal Rights Group
This report reviews how the UN human rights system has taken up women's rights, gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights and the degree to which these recommendations have been translated into action, with UNFPA's support.
Country examples demonstrate the impact of UNFPA's strategic engagement with UN human rights mechanisms for advancing the rights and choices of women and girls.
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An estimated 121 million pregnancies per year take place in the bodies of women who did not choose pregnancy or motherhood, who were not planning to have a child at that time, with that partner, in those circumstances. Nothing is more fundamental to bodily autonomy than the ability to decide whether or not to become pregnant. Yet for too many, the most life-altering reproductive choice is no choice at all.