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  • Development Policy and the Challenge of Growth

    09 February 2012

    BERLIN --- The paramount challenge of this century is to meet the needs of 7 billion human beings now – and the billions to come – while protecting the intricate balance of nature that sustains life, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin said in a speech at an international conference on development policy and population.
  • 2,000 More African Communities End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in 2011

    06 February 2012

    UNITED NATIONS, New York— Almost 2,000 communities across Africa have abandoned female genital mutilation/cutting in 2011. This brought the total number of communities renouncing the practice to 8,000 over the last few years, according to new findings by UNFPA and UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund.
  • Sudan: The Campaign against Cutting Goes to School

    02 February 2012

    GADARIF, Sudan — When Ahfad University for Women in Omdurman began offering a course in community development in the 1990s meant for mature, illiterate women farmers, the main goal was to expand the students’ role in the economic life of their communities.
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Country Profiles
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Watch the video.

Infographic

Declining rates of FGM/C
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Charts show progress in that female genital mutilation/cutting, still common in many countries, is declining.

Resource Page

Sex Ratio Imbalance
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News, updates, media reports and resources on prenatal sex selection

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Rio+20: Future We Want

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3 min 33 sec 2011
Slideshow: Mozambique

Innovative programs supported by UNFPA are improving the lives of women in Mozambique.

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8 min 56 sec 2011
Mobilisation Communautair pour Sauver la vie des Populations Vulnerables

Produced by the UNFPA Central African Republic Office - "Social Mobilization to Save Vulnerable People's Lives." French with English subtitles.

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5 min 42 sec 2011
Mexico: Streets not paved with gold

Thousands of young people live as homeless on the streets of Mexico City, the world's eighth largest city. Many find themselves in squalid and often dangerous conditions.

MORE at video.unfpa.org