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Refugee with disability overcomes steep hurdles

27 July 2015
Fatima at the Zaatari women’s centre where she volunteers as an art instructor. As a disabled child, she had to overcome stigma and isolation. She faced the same challenges again as a refugee. © UNFPA
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Putting human rights at the heart of reproductive health

17 April 2015
A new mother attends a culturally sensitive counselling session at the Jose Domingo De Obaldia Hospital in David, Panama. © UNFPA/Guadalupe Valdes
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Teenage Pregnancy is Way of Life in Remote Laotian Villages

30 October 2013
<p>At 16, Tod is expecting her second child.&nbsp;With limited options for schooling, adolscents in some remote villages in southern Laos routinely marry and start the hard work of raising families by age 14 or 15. <i>Photo&copy;UNFPA AsiaPacific</i> </p>
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Protecting the Rights, Unleashing the Potential of Indigenous Girls in Rural Guatemala

14 May 2013
Abriendo Oportunidades offers safe spaces, mentoring, educational opportunities and solidarity for adolescent Mayan girls. It also introduces new possibilities into their lives. Photo &copy; Mark Tuschman
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Midwives Deliver for the Women of the World

02 May 2013
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Montevideo Consensus on population and development

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The first session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, "Full integration of population dynamics into rights-based sustainable development with equality: key to the Cairo Programme of Action beyond 2014," was organized by ECLAC and the Government of Costa Rica. The first session was held in Montevideo, Uruguay, from 12 to15 August 2013, with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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Huge potential for economic growth requires fulfilling the promise of youth, flagship report says

18 November 2014
Students attend a workshop focused on their rights and potential, held during a conference in Apia, Samoa. Credit: UNFPA Pacific/Ariela Zibiah
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