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New Zealand pledges multi-year support to UNFPA core resources

28 Mar 2019
Craig Hawke (left), Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations, and UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem (right) shake hands at the signing of the new multi-year core funding agreement. © UNFPA/Isaac Hurskin
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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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Spotlight Initiative to Tackle Gender-Based Violence in Pacific Islands

07 Mar 2019
Dr. Natalia Kanem represented the United Nations at a high-level Spotlight Initiative event in Samoa. © UNFPA Pacific/Navinesh Kumar
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Survivor-centred aid for women and girls from Mosul

25 Feb 2019
Christos Stylianides, the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, and Alexander De Croo, the Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Finance and Development Cooperation, visited Hammam Al-Aleel camp for internally displaced persons in Mosul. © UNFPA Iraq
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Canada funding supports sustainable reproductive health and protection services in Iraq

08 May 2018
New funding from Canada will support sexual and reproductive health services for women and girls in Iraq, as they rebuild their lives after conflict. © UNFPA Iraq
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UNFPA partners with Flo app to bring reproductive health information to millions of users

16 Feb 2018
UNFPA Regional Director Alanna Armitage and OWHealth Director Dmitry Gurski at the signing ceremony in Minsk (left); the Flo app (right). © UNFPA Belarus
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UNFPA and Philips to co-create innovative health solutions for women and girls

21 Sep 2018
“We see huge potential in this thought partnership for innovation,” said UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem (right), with Henk Siebren de Jong, Chief of International Markets for Royal Philips (left). © UNFPA/Usenabasi Esiet
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Zonta International brings a global community of professional women to the fight to end child marriage

20 Nov 2018
The UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage provides services and support for adolescent girls and also engages communities to change social norms that perpetuate the practice, including through girls’ clubs that member Merhawit Mezgebe says are helping to stamp out child marriage in her district in Ethiopia. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw
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Norway supports the health, protection and empowerment of adolescents and youth in Ethiopia

07 Dec 2018
The agreement was signed on 22 November in Addis Ababa, by (from left) Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia; Merete Lundemo, Ambassador of the Royal Norwegian Embassy to Ethiopia; Hiwot Hailu, State Minister of Women, Children and Youth Affairs of Ethiopia; and UNFPA Country Representative Bettina Maas. © UNICEF Ethiopia
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Canada convenes parliamentarians to accelerate achievement of ICPD Programme of Action

23 Nov 2018
Parliamentarians and experts from over 70 countries assembled at the 7th International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action. © UNFPA/Usenabasi Esiet
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