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Delivering as One in Viet Nam to Address the Issue of Gender-based Violence
PHU THO PROVINCE, Viet Nam — “My first year of marriage was very happy,” remembers Hoa with a smile. Everything was as she had planned. She was young, had married the man she loved and was running a successful cosmetics…
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The Women Deliver Conference Puts Maternal and Child Health in the Spotlight
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some of UNFPA’s most fundamental issues – maternal and newborn health, family planning, integration of health services and the global shortage of health care workers – are front and centre at Women…
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UNFPA Executive Director Honoured for a Lifetime of Delivering for Women
<p>WASHINGTON, D. C. — UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya A. Obaid was presented an award for a lifetime of delivering for women at the close of an intense, three-day show of support for the women of the world.</…
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Women Deliver: Empowered Women and Their Powerful Stories
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “When I was nine years old I dreamed of becoming a lawyer,” Viviana Palacios, 23, from Colombia told a packed auditorium on the second day of the Women Deliver conference.
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In their Own Words: Eight Perspectives on Midwifery
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Throughout the Women Deliver conference, and the Symposium on Strengthening Midwifery that preceded it, the critical importance of midwives to meeting the Maternal Health challenge was emphasized.
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The Crown Princess Meets with Fistula Survivors at the Women Deliver Conference
In one of her first official mission as Patron for UNFPA, H.R.H. Crown Princess Mary participated in Women Deliver II, a major international conference dedicated to maternal health.
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Multimedia Exhibit Opens: Stories of Mothers Saved (and Lost)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a joint initiative between UNFPA and the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe motherhood, stories from 60 communities and nearly 30 communities have been collected for Stories of Mothers Saved
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Consensus Forged on a Strategy to Strengthen Midwifery in Developing Countries
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some 200 midwives, policymakers, UN agencies and other donors came together last weekend to galvanize support for strengthening midwifery services and increasing the number of midwives in developing…
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Displaced Sri Lankan Women Return Home and Rebuild their Lives
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka — Ramesha, a schoolteacher, waits patiently for a prenatal exam at a mobile clinic in this former battle zone. After being displaced 13 times in two years, she has finally returned home.
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