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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

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
  • 18 August 2023
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Speech

Keynote address by Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the 4th African Philanthropy Conference

04 August 2023

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

Father-of-two Tofig Sadikhov is a facilitator for UNFPA’s Papa School programme. © UNFPA Azerbaijan
  • 10 July 2023
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The threads that bind: How bilum-weaving in Papua New Guinea tells stories from the lives of women and girls

Florence Jaukae Kamel is a bilum weaver and entrepreneur. © UNFPA Papua New Guinea
  • 05 July 2023
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Publication

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

Number of pages: 56

Publication date: 07 Jul 2023

Publisher: UNFPA, Universal Rights Group

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.

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“Men will no longer do what they want with them”: Indigenous women in Brazil say enough to gender-based violence

Lutana Ribeiro is the only female chief of Parque das Tribos, an indigenous neighbourhood in Manaus, the capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state. ©UNFPA Brazil/Isabela Martel
  • 10 January 2023
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Consultant, Thematic Report on Gender Dimension, Port Moresby, PNG

  • Level: Consultant
  • Contract type: Consultancy
  • Closing date: 30 Jun 2023 05:00 PM (America/New_York)
  • Duty station: Home-based including In-person visits to Port Moresby

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