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A New Midwifery School Brings Hope to Haitian Mothers

06 November 2013
Classes have begun at the new National Midwifery School in Port-Au-Prince, housed in a new earthquake-resistant building following the devastating quake that hit Haiti in January 2010. UNFPA
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News

State of World Population 2013 Launches Worldwide

31 October 2013
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Speech

The State of World Population 2013: Motherhood in Childhood

30 October 2013
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News

New York and Chicago Ad Campaigns Spur Debate and Controversy in Push to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy

27 October 2013
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Press Release

More than 7 Million Girls in Poor Countries Give Birth Before 18 Each Year, Finds New UNFPA Report

30 October 2013
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News

Graduating Health Pioneers in the World’s Youngest Country

21 October 2013
<p>Newly graduated midwives and nurses celebrate as they obtain their diplomas from the Juba College of Nursing and Midwifery in South Sudan. <i>Photo: &copy; UNFPA/South Sudan</i> </p>
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Too Young to Wed: Indian Girls Say No to Child Marriage

14 October 2013
<p>"If I would get married it would not feel good," says Naaku Maayida, 15. "With marriage, children happen, I would have to do the home chores, I would have to fetch water. My parents were illiterate when they had kids." <i>Photo &copy; Stephanie Sinclair/VII/Tooyoungtowed.org</i> </p>
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Opinion

Keep Women and Girls at the Heart of Development

11 October 2013
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Statement

Innovating for Girls’ Education

11 October 2013
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Giving birth in the DRC – in pictures

08 October 2013
<p>Dr Along Diana Andersen does the rounds, together with nurses, examining post- and prenatal patients in the maternity ward of Mosango hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. <i>Photo: &copy; Sven Torfinn/Panos/H4+</i> </p>
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