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UNFPA Calls for Development Goal on Youth

calendar_today15 November 2013

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Scaling Up the Humanitarian Response for Syrian Refugees

calendar_today24 June 2012

Syrian refugees receiving supplies in Northern Lebanon. Photo: UNHCR/F. Juez
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Empowering Girls in Nepal to Say ‘No’ to Child Marriage

calendar_today09 October 2012

With the help of her Choose Your Future classmates, Usha blocked her parents' plans to have her married at 15. Photo: William A. Ryan<
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Young and Pregnant in Jamaica, But Staying in School

calendar_today10 August 2010

Kazan's mother offers support to Kazan and baby Shakira. Photo:UNFPA/Jamaica
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Using Social Media to Empower Madagascar’s Youth

calendar_today28 October 2013

<p>Manantsoa Ratsarazaka (right) founded a groundbreaking project to educate and encourage young people in Madagascar to discuss reproductive health issues and seek advice, using the ever growing power of social media. <i>Photo &copy; Lovaniaina Tsiandatse/UNFPA</i> </p>
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UNFPA Launches Advocacy Platform for Post-2015 Development Framework

calendar_today24 October 2013

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Teenage Pregnancy is Way of Life in Remote Laotian Villages

calendar_today30 October 2013

<p>At 16, Tod is expecting her second child.&nbsp;With limited options for schooling, adolscents in some remote villages in southern Laos routinely marry and start the hard work of raising families by age 14 or 15. <i>Photo&copy;UNFPA AsiaPacific</i> </p>
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Preventing Teenage Pregnancy in Ecuador

calendar_today26 August 2010

Maria Victoria Urquizo(15) was raped by a co-worker when she was 14 years old. Now she lives with her baby girl at her brother's house. Photo: Trygve Olfarnes/UNFPA.
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Malagasy Women Wounded by Child Marriage and its Aftermath

calendar_today10 October 2012

<p>Alphonsine has lived for nearly 20 years with obstetric fistula and resulting incontinence.&nbsp; She underwent a surgical repair, but needs to undergo another.&nbsp; Photo: UNFPA Madagascar</p>
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Ugandan Communities Scrutinize a Violent – Sometimes Deadly – Rite of Passage

calendar_today01 February 2013

These schoolchildren in the Moroto district, where FGM/C is still prevalent, were shown a video that explains the negative consequences of the practice. In the past, this information was hidden from them
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