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Five things you need to know about consent

calendar_today01 September 2023

© Illustrations for UNFPA by Sumeet Raiphale
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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Publication date

Aug 2023

Resources

Gender assessment of civil society organization partners Under the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage

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“Sometimes she was desperate”: How survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are healing with the help of UNFPA’s frontline workers

calendar_today18 August 2023

Anny* and her daughter were raped at gunpoint while collecting firewood near the Bulengo camp for internally displaced people, where they are taking shelter from the conflict in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA DRC/Junior Mayindu
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Keynote address by Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the 4th African Philanthropy Conference

calendar_today04 August 2023

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How UNFPA is engaging men and boys to shift damaging attitudes and further gender equality

calendar_today10 July 2023

Father-of-two Tofig Sadikhov is a facilitator for UNFPA’s Papa School programme. © UNFPA Azerbaijan
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The threads that bind: How bilum-weaving in Papua New Guinea tells stories from the lives of women and girls

calendar_today05 July 2023

Florence Jaukae Kamel is a bilum weaver and entrepreneur. © UNFPA Papua New Guinea
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UNFPA, Universal Rights Group

Publication date

07 July 2023

Number of pages

56

Publication

Advancing Rights, Transforming Lives: Strategic Engagement with the United Nations Human Rights System to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

This report reviews how the UN human rights system has taken up women's rights, gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights and the degree to which these recommendations have been translated into action, with UNFPA's support.  

Country examples demonstrate the impact of UNFPA's strategic engagement with UN human rights mechanisms for advancing the rights and choices of women and girls.