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To tackle domestic violence, Ukraine looks to UNFPA’s mobile assistance teams

More than 50 UNFPA mobile teams are currently working in the country, serving thousands. © UNFPA/Maks Levin

17 January 2019

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Top 5 things you didn’t know about female genital mutilation

Asha lays out the tools she uses to perform female genital mutilation in Somalia. © UNFPA/Georgina Goodwin

05 February 2019

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Reaching women in Mosul, where the shadow of conflict still lingers

Eman, from West Mosul, needed a Caesarean section for her fifth child. © UNFPA Iraq/Jared Kohler

07 February 2019

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How to Transform a Social Norm

Publication date: 06 Sep 2018

Author: UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation Publication Date: 2018

Publisher: UNFPA, UNICEF

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For girls escaping FGM in rural Tanzania, crowdsourced maps show the way to safety

Ending FGM takes a multi-pronged approach – from offering a refuge for girls at acute risk to engaging families and communities to raise awareness of the harm it causes, and transform the social norms that uphold the practice. Here, girls in Tanzania’s Mara region participate in an alternative rites of passage camp at the UNFPA-supported Masanga Centre. © UNFPA/Mandela Gregoire

22 October 2018

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Earthquake and tsunami devastating for 45,000 pregnant women in Indonesia

Some 88,000 people have been displaced by the twin disasters in Indonesia's hardest-hit areas. Ibu Fariati and her family now share a tent with six other families. © UNFPA Indonesia/Stenly hely Sajow

16 October 2018

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Manual on Social Norms and Change (2016)

Number of pages: 24

Publication date: 02 Jun 2016

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

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Demographic Perspectives on Female Genital Mutilation

Number of pages: 54

Publication date: 20 Jul 2015

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

The day I became a woman

Published on: 06/02/2017

For millions of women around the world, the transition to womanhood is not marked by independence, a job or graduation from school, but rather by female genital mutilation.

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