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News

Ending violence and discrimination against women: A call to action

25 November 2014
Jyotsna Phulmali with her daughter in Maharashtra, India. Ms. Phulmali left an abusive husband when her daughter was still an infant. Changing attitudes about women and promoting gender equality will be essential to ending violence against women. © UNICEF/INDA2013-00249/Singh
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Events

Roundtable on UNFPA’s work towards the elimination of Gender-Based Violence

calendar_today20 September 2013

location_onUnited Nations Headquarters, New York

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Video

Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting video

February 24, 2010

Examines the practice of FGM/C and strategies employed by UNFPA and UNICEF to encourage communities to abandon it. The two agencies, working closely with governments, NGOs, religious leaders and small community groups, aim to bring about an end to the practice.

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Trailer: 2010 State of World Population Report

December 4, 2010
From Conflict and Crisis to Renewal: 
generations of change
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Birth Amid Chaos in Gaza

December 4, 2010

The birth of a child is a moment of excitement as well as anxiety. But in Gaza, it is even more stressful/ it may mean risking your life. We meet a courageous midwife who is improving the odds for many mothers and babies.

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Healing the Wounds of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina

December 4, 2010

The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina may have ended 15 years ago, but for some 20,000 women, the legacy of wartime rape lives on. Women of all ethnic groups are still trying to cope with the psychological effects of violence perpetrated against them.