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UN Youth Strategy commits support to a new generation of leaders

calendar_today25 September 2018

Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake (left, with UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem and Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen at a pre-launch panel), opened the launch with a call to listen to young people who have “broken barriers and shaken systems.” © UNFPA/Usenabasi Esiet
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A turning point for girls' and women’s menstrual health in Africa

calendar_today30 May 2018

Faith Kiraison, an advocate for girls' rights and health, teaches her peers about menstrual health management. © UNFPA Kenya/Douglas Waudo
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Companies reach more than 1 million with family planning information in Philippines

calendar_today18 July 2018

Phoebe Tamondong, 25, learned about family planning through a UNFPA-supported programme at her company. © UNFPA Philippines/Mario Villamor
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In the Philippines, information key to halting teenage pregnancy

calendar_today23 March 2018

“We really need more information on sex and reproductive health,” said Kathleen Acosta, 18, a senior and student leader at UP high school in Iloilo. © UNFPA Philippines
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UNFPA, Baby Box Co., help Haitian mothers protect their babies during disasters

calendar_today20 September 2017

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In Bangladesh’s tea gardens, saving mothers and newborns

calendar_today11 July 2017

Anjana rests with her newborn baby in Moulvibazar, Bangladesh. Both mother and baby survived an obstructed labour, thanks to the intervention of a midwife. © CIPRB/Animesh Biswas
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After devastating birth injuries, 33 women’s lives transformed

calendar_today14 July 2017

A young woman at a fistula-repair campaign in Batouri, Cameroon. Obstetric fistula is a life-altering childbirth injury that afflicts the world's most marginalized women. But it can be repaired – and prevented. © UNFPA Cameroon/Olive Bonga
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With bicycles, impoverished indigenous girls in Guatemala get a taste of freedom

calendar_today25 April 2017

Indigenous girls in northern Guatemala must often travel great distances to get to school, a factor that leads to high drop out rates. Bicycles help them stay in school. © UNFPA/Alejandro De León
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Workplace family planning project empowers women, and is good business

calendar_today07 July 2017

When Mae Esparcia returned to work after having a baby, she was able to access contraceptive pills through a workplace family planning programme. ©UNFPA Philippines/Mario Villamor
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Nutrition International and UNFPA partner to improve women and adolescent girls’ health

calendar_today11 July 2017

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