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The power of 10: Ten astonishing facts about 10-year-old girls

20 October 2016
Temawelase is a sixth-grader in rural Swaziland. Whether the world is able to achieve its development goals depends, in large part, on her fate and the fate of girls like her. ©UNFPA/Barcroft Media/Mark Lewis
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Stunning plunge in maternal deaths recorded in Maldives

12 October 2016
Joint UN estimates indicate the Maldives has seen a 90 per cent decline in maternal mortality since 1990. © UNFPA/Shahina Ali
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“What our daughter has done is a miracle” – the power of one adolescent girl

11 October 2016
Sibongile Majaura's business has saved her education and helps support her family. © UNFPA Zimbabwe/Nikita Little
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Fifty years after a terrible childbirth injury, Kenyan woman gets a new lease on life

10 October 2016
Jumwa Kabibu Kai, 77, with Kilifi County Governor Amason Kingi, at an event raising awareness about fistula. © UNFPA Kenya/Douglas Waudo
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New rules to help end child marriage in Cameroon

06 October 2016
Faouzia Yaya was forced into marriage three years ago. A new penal code has just been adopted to prevent such marriages. © UNFPA Cameroon
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After harrowing escape, South Sudan woman welcomes healthy twins

04 October 2016
Nyador Dagey with her newborn twins in a UNFPA-supported clinic in Bentiu. © UNFPA South Sudan/Michael Gatluak Tuok
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“I am a prey to all men”: Refugee women endure poverty, harassment, isolation

03 October 2016
Muna was left to fend for her children alone in the Domiz refugee camp in Iraq. © UNFPA Iraq/Khetam Malkawi
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Giving birth upright, with maté – Peru clinics open arms to indigenous women

29 September 2016
This woman's second childbirth experience was totally different from her first, she says, because she was able to deliver in the traditional vertical position. © Panorama/Carlos Gomez
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Astrologers, shamans and priests mobilize against child marriage in Nepal

27 September 2016
Three women with their children in Far Western Nepal. All of the women were child brides. © UNFPA Nepal/Santosh Chhetri
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Organizations raise alarm over “global contraceptive crisis”

26 September 2016
Nurse adviser Clementine Denagmi offers family planning counseling at a clinic run by the Benin Family Planning Association in Cotonou, Benin. © UNFPA/Ollivier Girard
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