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UNFPA, UNICEF Step Up Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

09 August 2007

News

Sadness and Optimism Mark International Women's Day Celebration in Haiti

09 March 2010

UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid speaking to a mother and her child waiting to be attended at a clinic that provides integrated primary healthcare that include reproductive health and testing, treatment and counselling for HIV and AIDS. This is a model for an integrated package of services at the community level. Photo: Dimitry Leger/UNFPA.

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Bill & Melinda Gates, Asian Parliamentary Group, Win 2010 United Nations Population Award

10 March 2010

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Day Camp Provides Young Haitians with Respite from the Boredom of Displacement

19 March 2010

One of the workshops at Camp de L'Avenir teaches participatants how to construct a building from plastic bottles filled with sand. Photo: Trygve Olfames/UNFPA

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American Idol’s David Cook Helps Brighten the Future for Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia

21 April 2010

American idol winner David Cook, left and Neal Tiemann, right, perform for student of Birth Tesfa, a United Nations programm supported by UNFPA , in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo:Stuart Ramson/UN Foundation.

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Ending Harmful Practices through Community-led Social Change in Senegal

20 April 2010

Some of the Senegalese girls who are being spread the pain of female genital mutilation/cutting as a result of Tostan's work in their community.

News

Sri Lankans Play Around with Gender Stereotypes

28 April 2010

Women engage their strength in a tug-of-war competition.

News

Convincing Egyptian Doctors to 'Do No Harm'

07 May 2010

Throughout Egypt, female genital cutting/mutilation remains a common practice. Credit Teun Voeten.

Press Release

Efforts to Boost Reproductive Health of Women, Girls, Falling Short, Says New MDG Review

23 June 2010

News

New Radio Series Captures Voices of the Next Generation

30 June 2010

This young women from South Africa is one of the 15- years-old whose experience are captured in voices of the Next Generation. Photo:UN Radio.

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