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Empowering Rural Women: Commission on the Status of Women

UNITED NATIONS, New York --- Over the next two weeks, the 56th Commission on the Status of Women takes on the challenge of empowering rural women and acknowledging their crucial role in the eradication of hunger and…

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Secretary-General Appoints Kate Gilmore as Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA

UNITED NATIONS, New York -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday announced the appointment of Kate Gilmore, of Australia, as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director  of UNFPA.

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Teaming Up to Provide Maternal Care Following Severe Floods in the Philippines

NORTHERN MINDANAO, Philippines -- In the midst of the severe flooding brought on by tropical storm Washi, Analiza Tumanda was resigned to the idea of giving birth on the rooftop of a neighbour’s house.

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'Cultural Tradition' is No Excuse for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

<p>WASHINGTON, D. C. --- Governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations are making progress toward ending female genital mutilation/cutting, or FGM/C, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary…

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New Website, ICPD Beyond 2014, is Launched

UNITED NATIONS -- Many young leaders around the world are too young to remember the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, which took place in Cairo. But the plan that emerged from the conference…

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Mobilizing Men by Exploring Ways that Equality Benefits All

“Men who abuse women misuse power,” says the sticker on the back of a boda boda taxi in Nairobi. The words point to imbalances in prevailing gender norms and to the role men need to play in changing power dynamics.

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Development Policy and the Challenge of Growth

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…

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Sudan: The Campaign against Cutting Goes to School

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…

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Two More Corners of Ethiopia Call for an End to Genital Cutting

ARAR REGION, Ethiopia — In a ceremony of poetry, drama and music, the Buremudaytu and Argoba districts in the Afar region officially abandoned female genital mutilation/cutting earlier this month.

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