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Five things you didn’t know about disability and sexual violence
- 30 October 2018
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State of World Population
Number of pages: 158
Publication date: 17 Oct 2018
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
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Number of pages: 24
Publication date: 02 Jun 2016
Author: UNFPA, UNICEF
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For millions of women around the world, the transition to womanhood is not marked by independence, a job or graduation from school, but rather by female genital mutilation.
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21 November 2016
This is 2016 and yet one in three women worldwide still experiences or has experienced some form of physical or sexual violence, usually perpetrated by someone she knows. Moreover, millions of women and girls have been subjected to other forms of violence and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, which affect an estimated 200 million women and girls, or child marriage, with one in three girls in developing countries being married off before the age of 18.
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Resource date: Oct 2016
When Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on 4 October, it caused the worse devastation since the 2010 earthquake. UNFPA is assessing the needs of affected women and girls, and is providing care, support and assistance.
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Resource date: Oct 2016