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Award-Winning Programme Gives Ethiopian Girls a Safer Transition to Adulthood

17 January 2013
<p>These girls are building brighter futures through the Berhane Hewan programme. The model programme is now being taken over by the regional government. <i>Photo: UNFPA Ethiopia</i> </p>
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Statement

Reproductive Rights are Key to Meaningful Participation

06 December 2012
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General Assembly Committee Calls for Stronger Global Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

30 November 2012
<p>Community discussions focusing on human rights are integral to collective decisions to abandon FGM in Senegal, one of the countries in the Joint Programme. <i>Photo: UNFPA</i> </p>
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From Perpetrators of Violence to Agents of Change: Men and Boys in Times of Conflict

28 November 2012
<p>Amidst the generalized violence found in conflict and post-conflict situations, violence against women may spiral out of control<i>,</i> as it has in the Democratic Republic of Congo.&nbsp; <i>Photo: Lynsey Addario</i> </p>
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Women Will Change the World, Executive Director Tells CNN

20 November 2012
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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
<p>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</p>
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Using the Opportunity of the General Assembly to Speak Out Against FGM/C

24 September 2012
<p>The organizers of the panel, Madame Chantal Boni Yay, First Lady of Benin, and Madame Chantal Campaore, the First Lady of Burkina Faso,&nbsp; are pictured here with UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin.</p>
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UN Commission Sets Out Plan to Make Life-saving Health Supplies More Accessible

26 September 2012
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