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04 June 2013
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Inter-agency Workshop in Kabul Seeks to Improve Services for Survivors of Gender-based Violence
Kabul- This month, UNFPA and UNICEF in Afghanistan jointly hosted a four-day workshop in Kabul to help improve services and coordination for gender-based violence (GBV) in…
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30 May 2013
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30 May 2013 ‘Girls and Women Must Be at the Heart of Post-2015 Development Agenda’
KUALA LUMPUR--Women's place in the global development agenda took centre stage on the final day of the Women Deliver conference. Sexual and reproductive health, gender equality…
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30 May 2013
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Pledges to Give Poor Women Access to Family Planning Are Having an Impact
KUALA LUMPUR—Enabling family planning use to empower girls and women and protect their health was the theme of day two of the Women Deliver conference. Nine months after…
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30 May 2013
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UNFPA Welcomes Eminent Persons’ Call to Place People, Particularly Women, at Heart of Transformative Development Efforts
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 30 May 2013—Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, warmly welcomed the report of the High-Level…
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23 May 2013
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UNFPA Drives Family Planning Innovation to Reach World’s Most Marginalized, at Major Women’s Health Conference
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 22 May 2013—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, will launch two new initiatives that will increase access to family planning and improve maternal…
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22 May 2013
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Commission on the Status of Women: A Breakthrough for the Health and Rights of Women and Girls
The agreed conclusions of the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in March, 2013 promise to protect women and girls from violence and to initiate…
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21 May 2013
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Inaugural Day to End Fistula Highlights Progress, Challenges
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 20 May 2013—Countries around the world will mark the first-ever International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, 23 May, with a variety of events to raise…
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04 May 2013
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Minority Midwives at the Centre of Viet Nam’s Strategy to Reduce Maternal and Child Deaths
HA NOI—In an effort to make childbirth safer for ethnic minority women, who typically give birth at home, Viet Nam has trained 1,000 minority midwives from 30 provinces. Chamaléa…
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28 April 2013
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VIA Screening Turns a New Page in Preventing Cervical Cancer in the Maldives
MALE’, the Maldives--To better prevent and treat cervical cancer, the Ministry of Health and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, have begun to promote a new methodology to…
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