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In Türkiye, refugee child marriages drive adolescent pregnancies underground
26 July 2018News
HIV prevention efforts must reach most vulnerable – adolescents, young women, LGBTQIA+ communities
23 July 2018News
Family planning liberating for women in rural Ethiopia
16 July 2018News
Midwives deployed to remote Afghanistan to lower maternal death rate
10 July 2018Brief on the medicalization of female genital mutilation
Resource date: 18 June 2018
Author: UNFPA
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After ‘Volcano of Fire’ eruption, women and girls face heightened risks
05 July 2018News
Breaking taboos around sexual and reproductive health in rural Georgia
21 June 2018News
This World Refugee Day, recognizing the strength and courage of refugees
20 June 2018Video
Architect Not Child Bride: A Syrian Girl’s Dream
June 19, 2018Since its opening in 2015, over 1,800 young women and men in Zaatari refugee camp have benefitted from trainings on reproductive health and gender-based violence at the Questscope-UNFPA Youth Centre. This is the story of 16-year-old Yanal, who became an advocate against child marriage after learning about its harms at the UNFPA-supported youth centre in Zaatari. A film by UNFPA Jordan/Elspeth Dehnert.
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War Torn Girlhood
June 19, 2018The Syrian crisis has left hundreds of thousands of adolescent girls vulnerable to child marriage and in need of adequate gender-based violence, sexual education and reproductive health services. UNFPA is helping to fill this void in Jordan, where 42,000 Syrian refugees are girls between the ages of 12 and 17. This is Asma's story. A film by UNFPA Jordan/Elspeth Dehnert.