Resources

Technical Note on Life Skills Programmes for Empowering Adolescent Girls: Notes for Practitioners on What Works

Resource date: 31 December 2019

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

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Treating the invisible wounds of violence in Peru

21 July 2021

Dr. Gabriela Gonzalez is a psychiatrist in Lima who helps survivors of gender-based violence work through their trauma. "I chose this specialty because I wanted to help people, especially women, in recovering their mental health, and improve their lives," she said. © UNFPA Peru

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Tanzanian helpline reaching thousands of at-risk women and girls every day

20 May 2021

A counsellor takes calls at the National Child Helpline in Dar es Salaam. ©UNFPA Tanzania/Ericky Boniface

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After childbirth trauma, Afghan women emerge from life in shadows

07 June 2016

Noorjahan laughs as she recovers from fistula surgery in Malalai Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Now, she says, "I can live." © Andrea Bruce/ NOOR

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Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem’s message on Child Marriage at the 65th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

March 17, 2021

In her remarks at the CSW65 high-level event "An inter-generational dialogue on child, early and forced marriage," UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem explained how child marriage is a manifestation of gender inequality that robs girls of say and choice and appealed for a gender-equal world in which girls would know their rights and value and be empowered to make their own informed decisions.

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From child bride to midwife saving lives of Afghan mothers

10 March 2021

Amina Mansoory is the only midwife serving in a remote district (population:1500) of Herat province in western Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan

Resources

Technical Note on Ensuring Value for Money in the Global Programme to End Child Marriage

Resource date: 03 November 2020

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

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Child Marriage and the Law: Technical Note for the Global Programme to End Child Marriage

Resource date: 03 November 2020

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

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Amid conflict, displacement, pandemic, Syrian girls see a future in… robots

22 February 2021

Bana, 12, enjoys learning about robotics at a women's and girls' safe space in northwest Syria. Image courtesy of Ihsan Relief and Development

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Safe spaces in Colombia offer respite to Venezuelan migrants

25 February 2021

Women at a safe space in Saravena, Arauca, one of 19 in Colombia that serve Venezuelan migrants who are survivors of gender-based violence. © UNFPA Colombia

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