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“We are working against all odds”: Despite progress, FGM and child marriage numbers cause alarm
“We’re needing to speed up,” said UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem at a high-level event.
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Leaders call for securing sexual and reproductive health and rights in Kenya’s largest slum
“When sleeping women awake, mountains move,” said Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA’s Executive Director, quoting a Kenyan proverb at an event in the sprawling Kibera informal settlement.
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A league of extraordinary women: Real life super heroes
Women are defying the odds to secure the rights of their friends, sisters and countrywomen.
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Fear and exhaustion shadow Venezuelan women on the long trek to Peru
"We would sleep in the streets and wake up in the streets," a pregnant women told UNFPA.
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Female Islamic preachers call for women’s rights, contraception in Niger
Caring for one's reproductive health and rights is "a duty for women."
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In world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the miracle of a safe birth
Over a million pregnant women and new mothers require urgent aid in Yemen, the site of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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Surviving Ebola: “I was so afraid to die and be put in a body bag”
“I did not believe in the existence of Ebola," said Jémima Masika. Then she fell sick.
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118-truck convoy delivers urgent aid to stranded residents in Rukban, Syria
UNFPA delivered critical supplies to a remote settlement in Rukban, where residents have been stranded in the desert for years.
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Born at the end of a rope: Embracing indigenous childbirth traditions to save lives
Rural health systems have embraced something they once ignored: folk traditions and practices.
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