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10: How our future depends on a girl at this decisive age

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For busy garment workers in Lesotho, health care comes on wheels

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’Mantina Mphohle receiving health services inside a new mobile clinic, near the factory where she works. © UNFPA Lesotho

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The power of 10: Ten astonishing facts about 10-year-old girls

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Temawelase is a sixth-grader in rural Swaziland. Whether the world is able to achieve its development goals depends, in large part, on her fate and the fate of girls like her. ©UNFPA/Barcroft Media/Mark Lewis

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Stunning plunge in maternal deaths recorded in Maldives

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Joint UN estimates indicate the Maldives has seen a 90 per cent decline in maternal mortality since 1990. © UNFPA/Shahina Ali

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Fifty years after a terrible childbirth injury, Kenyan woman gets a new lease on life

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Jumwa Kabibu Kai, 77, with Kilifi County Governor Amason Kingi, at an event raising awareness about fistula. © UNFPA Kenya/Douglas Waudo

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After harrowing escape, South Sudan woman welcomes healthy twins

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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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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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