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UNFPA and UNICEF renew multi-country initiative to protect millions of girls from child marriage

10 Mar 2020

The Global Programme is helping a girls' club stamp out child marriage in Ethiopia. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw

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Italian region of Lombardy announces new support for UNFPA Supplies

06 Dec 2019

UNFPA is helping to educate women about family planning options in least developed countries like South Sudan. © UNFPA/Annette Poni

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In Myanmar communities torn apart by conflict, youth centres nurture health, learning and well-being

The centres provide young people with knowledge about their bodies, relationships and health. © UNFPA Myanmar Thein Zaw Win

21 October 2019

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No mountain too high: Midwives protect women, save lives

Najiba works in one of the hardest-to-reach, poorest areas of Bamyan. © UNFPA Afghanistan

03 May 2019

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A call to protect women and girls on the move

Rohingya refugee girls participate in classes on sexual and reproductive health and life skills at a UNFPA-supported safe space in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The space offers a place to connect with peers and gain support, care and knowledge to help them stay healthy and safe amidst the hardships of forced displacement. © UNFPA/Carly Learson

05 October 2018

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

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

31 July 2018

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Midwives deployed to remote Afghanistan to lower maternal death rate

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

10 July 2018

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Counsellors reach out to Kachin communities to end gender violence

The staff at the Women's and Girls' Centre in Waing Maw, in Myanmar, are working with communities to stop gender-based violence. © UNFPA/Yenny Gamming

23 May 2017

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The colour purple, changing the future of Afghan mothers

<p>From left to right: Aqela, Masooma and Fatima, students at the Community Midwifery School in Kabul. <i>Photo credit: Maria Blanco Lora/UNFPA.</i> </p>

09 May 2014

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