News

Avoiding and Mitigating the Health Consequences of FGM/C in Ethiopia

calendar_today18 June 2013

<p>Sadiya (right) at the hospital with her mother.&nbsp; <i>Photo &copy; UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw</i> </p>
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How to be a man: Bolivian men and boys work to eliminate gender-based violence

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Boys and men are challenging ideas about masculinity and dominance over women, helping to address Bolivia's high rates of violence against women. © UNFPA Bolivia
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Jamaica Offers a Model for Preventing Adolescent Pregnancies while Supporting Young Mothers

calendar_today27 August 2013

Talking to adolescents about sex can make for important but sometimes uncomfortable conversations<strong>.</strong> <i>Photo: Basil Jones for UNFPA</i>
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Video

Empowering Young People: Ethiopia

calendar_today12 December 2014

Empowering Young People: Ethiopia

Empowering Young People: Ethiopia

Voices of young people: video collage produced by UNFPA Ethiopia. 

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Girl leaders come together to advocate for their rights in Mozambique

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Adolescent girl activists attend the UNFPA-supported National Girls’ Conference in Maputo, Mozambique. © UNFPA Mozambique
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In Myanmar, changing what it means to live with HIV

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Chan Chan,19, contracted HIV when she was 9 years old from a syringe at a clinic in Rakhine State, Myanmar. She wants to change how people view the illness. © UNFPA Myanmar/Ben Manser
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Huge potential for economic growth requires fulfilling the promise of youth, flagship report says

calendar_today18 November 2014

Students attend a workshop focused on their rights and potential, held during a conference in Apia, Samoa. Credit: UNFPA Pacific/Ariela Zibiah
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Video

Youth: Paving a Way to Tunisia's Future

calendar_today18 November 2014

Youth: Paving a Way to Tunisia's Future

Youth: Paving a Way to Tunisia's Future

In 2011, Tunisians took to the street to demand their rights. This was a revolution that brought youth and especially young women to the front to demand their freedom and a chance at real democracy. And today young women like Samah Krichah, a young activist who works as a partner with UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, continue to be at the front of the continued push towards fair representation.

Publisher

UNFPA

Publication date

2013

Author

UNFPA

Resources

UNFPA strategy on Adolescents and Youth

Towards realizing the full potential of adolescents and youth

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In race to save women's lives, solutions are within reach, says UNFPA head

calendar_today21 September 2014

<p>Maternal and neonatal death rates remain stubbornly high, studies show. But the solutions to these problems are known, and deceptively simple. <i>Photo credit: Jerome Sessini/Magnum Photos</i> </p>
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