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25x25: Youth Ambassadors to help pave the way to Nairobi

20 Mar 2019

Twenty-five youth ambassadors, each born 25 years ago, have been selected to advance the goals of the International Conference on Population and Development. © UNFPA Nepal

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A guiding hand: School counsellors in Sierra Leone address early pregnancy, child marriage

18 March 2019

Fatmata Sesay reenrolled in school after becoming pregnant at age 15. © UNFPA Sierra Leone/Salim Kamara

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“Why me?” – Stigma, lack of information leave Myanmar youth in the dark on HIV

10 January 2019

Condoms at a UNFPA-supported mobile clinic. Sithu, 21, did not know how to protect himself from HIV. © UNFPA/Yenny Gamming

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In Burundi, sexual health education helps youth protect themselves, their futures

18 January 2019

Young people outside a youth-friendly health centre in Kamenge, Bujumbura. © UNFPA/Chiara Frisone

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Female Islamic preachers call for women’s rights, contraception in Niger

27 February 2019

In this Islamic study group, older women bring up questions that younger women are too embarrassed to raise. © UNFPA WCARO/Habibou Dia

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“I was a little girl taking care of other kids” – After violence and neglect, women in Morocco find space to heal

12 December 2018

Nuzha was barely six years old when her father forced her into domestic labour to support her siblings. “I was responsible for feeding the whole family,” she told UNFPA. © UNFPA Morocco

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Canada supports greater access to contraceptives and medicines for women and girls worldwide

13 Nov 2018

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem (left) with Marie-Claude Bibeau, Canada’s Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, at the fifth International Conference on Family Planning in Kigali, Rwanda. © UNFPA/Usenabasi Esiet

2018 International Conference on Family Planning

12 November - 15 November 2018

Kigali. Rwanda

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