The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)–United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Global Programme to End Child Marriage works with many partners to advocate and support practical actions to end child marriage, and to promote gender equality and the empowerment of adolescent girls.

This technical note illustrates how systems for education, health, gender-based violence and child protection, and social protection can coordinate action and contribute to the safety, health and learning of adolescent girls, and build opportunities for them. 

Press Release

Supermodel and philanthropist Natalia Vodianova teams up with UNFPA to end the stigma around women’s bodies and health

24 February 2021
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This document is the executive summary of the implementation manual for developing a national network of maternity units and aims to give the key messages of the manual.

Also in this series:

Implementation Manual for Developing a National Network of Maternity Units: Improving Emergency Obstetric And Newborn Care (EmONC)

Media Advisory

WOMEN OF THE DIASPORA: A Global Virtual Summit on Gender and Racial Discrimination

10 September 2020
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News

A pandemic-born programme bolsters local health systems in Brazil

15 February 2021
Leticia Souza Melo, a 21-year-old expecting her third child, is receiving antenatal care from a UNFPA-supported programme in Santa Cruz do Arari, Pará, Brazil. © UNFPA Brazil
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Pregnant women struggle to find support, stability after displacement from Tigray Region in Ethiopia

10 February 2021
UNFPA is helping to urgently recruit midwives and provide emergency supplies to support safe childbirth for displaced pregnant women. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Salwa Moussa
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Three girls, three stories: The perils of child marriage and the promise of freedom

11 February 2021
Sixteen-year-old Fethiye fled war in Iraq – and the likelihood of child marriage – to Türkiye. © UNFPA Türkiye
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Reformed cutters protect the next generation from female genital mutilation in Kenya

04 February 2021
Reformed cutters Kokarupe Lorwu, Methani Chepurai Lokuda and Chepchongil Cheleston in West Pokot County in Kenya. © UNFPA/Luis Tato
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The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation 2021

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