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Message on Ending Child Marriage: Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director

March 25, 2020

Statement by Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director, on ending child marriage.

News

Millions more cases of violence, child marriage, female genital mutilation, unintended pregnancy expected due to the COVID-19 pandemic

28 April 2020
Outreach workers in Syria are worried about the vulnerability of women and girls under curfew. © UNFPA Syria
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Italian assistance helps UNFPA protect vulnerable migrant women, youth in Sudan

13 Apr 2020
Sudan is a transit state for migrants coming from the Horn of Africa. © UNFPA Sudan/Soufian Abdul-Mouty
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UNFPA and UNICEF renew multi-country initiative to protect millions of girls from child marriage

10 Mar 2020
The Global Programme is helping a girls' club stamp out child marriage in Ethiopia. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw
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Better suicide prevention and mental health care needed among Myanmar’s most vulnerable

04 March 2020
Young people in Myanmar face a variety of risk factors for depression and other mental health disorders, including exposure to conflict and humanitarian crisis. © UNFPA Myanmar
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Video

#BornComplete: Kenza's Story on FGM

February 18, 2019

Kenza is a doctor in her twenties from Djibouti. In the video, she speaks of her experience with FGM as a child and the long-term consequences of the trauma.