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Bodily autonomy: Busting 7 myths that undermine individual rights and freedoms

14 April 2021
A survivor of childhood violence in Ghana, during a conversation about her experience. Violations of bodily autonomy can leave lasting emotional scars. © UNFPA/George Koranteng
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Despite significant global investment and efforts to create a more equitable and safer world for children, some challenges such as female genital mutilation are so deeply rooted in the long-standing beliefs and social norms of communities that they continue to persist.

This toolkit is a practical ‘how to’ document for researchers, programme planners, programme implementers and evaluation experts, and is intended to enhance their social-norms-related programme efforts.

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The Orange Book of Results is a compendium of key results achieved in 2019 by UNFPA's country offices, in line with the UNFPA Strategic Plan 2018–2021. This publication showcases more than 1,500 results achieved in 2019. This publication helps UNFPA and other development organizations learn from past experience and strengthen partnerships to achieve results.

The individual pages of this publication, as well as additional results from the Strategic Plan indicator framework, can be found in the UNFPA Transparency Portal.

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Five things you didn’t know about practices that harm girls

30 June 2020
Without urgent action, the situation for women and girls could worsen. Artwork by Fatma Mahmoud Salama Raslan.
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This brochure describes a method of Small Area Estimation that combines census and household survey data. It also presents a case study based on data from Nepal. The case study illustrates the use of census as well as demographic and health survey data to generate estimates of three family planning related indicators for Village Development Committees and Municipalities in rural and urban areas, respectively.

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