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Not your typical boys’ club: Mozambique’s school meetings engage students against gender-based violence

Cleiton (right) spearheads a group in which his peers take a stand against gender-based violence in their school. © Helder Xavier / UNFPA Mozambique
  • 18 September 2023
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Resources

Gender assessment of civil society organization partners Under the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage

Resource date: Aug 2023

Publisher: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

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Five things you need to know about consent

© Illustrations for UNFPA by Sumeet Raiphale
  • 01 September 2023
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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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Taking care of business: Empowering women and girls in Uganda to pursue their dream careers

Mariam, Mackisencia and Mary with their smart bags for girls, provided through the UNFPA-supported Smart Girls Foundation initiative. The bags contain reusable sanitary pads, a sewing kit, a menstrual health management information booklet and a solar-powered torch. © UNFPA/Jadwiga Figula
  • 08 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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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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