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General Assembly Committee Calls for Stronger Global Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

30 November 2012

Community discussions focusing on human rights are integral to collective decisions to abandon FGM in Senegal, one of the countries in the Joint Programme. Photo: UNFPA

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From Perpetrators of Violence to Agents of Change: Men and Boys in Times of Conflict

28 November 2012

Amidst the generalized violence found in conflict and post-conflict situations, violence against women may spiral out of control, as it has in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Photo: Lynsey Addario

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Women Will Change the World, Executive Director Tells CNN

20 November 2012

Press Release

Additional Investments in Family Planning Would Save Developing Countries More Than $11 Billion a Year

14 November 2012

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Consulting with Faith-Based Organizations on the Post-2015 Agenda

12 September 2012

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Older Tanzanian Women Face Allegations of Witchcraft

03 October 2012

An elderly woman works in her banana grove, near Bukoba, Tanzania. Prejudice based on misunderstanding often leads to discrimination and violence against vulnerable women in the country's rural areas.Photograph: Reinhard Marscha/Alamy

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Using the Opportunity of the General Assembly to Speak Out Against FGM/C

24 September 2012

The organizers of the panel, Madame Chantal Boni Yay, First Lady of Benin, and Madame Chantal Campaore, the First Lady of Burkina Faso,  are pictured here with UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin.

Press Release

UN Commission Sets Out Plan to Make Life-saving Health Supplies More Accessible

26 September 2012

Press Release

World Population Day Marked with Renewed Push to Expand Family Planning Access Around the Globe

11 July 2012

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CERF Funds Help UNFPA Deliver

01 June 2012

In late 2011, some 1.2 million Cambodians were affected by the worst floods the country has seen in more than a decade. Photo:© WFP/Polly Egerton

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