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Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 Welcoming Ceremony

12 November 2019
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This supplement was launched in conjunction with the launch of the background document for the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: an essential element of universal health coverage.

It presents evidence supporting the need for and cost-effectiveness of interventions defined by the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission which was the basis, while not exhaustive, of the reflection leading to the Background document for the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25.

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Nuns and monks break the silence on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Bhutan

04 November 2019
Nuns and monks gathered at Pangrizampa College of Astrology to speak with UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem about their work on sexual and reproductive health and rights. © UNFPA Bhutan/Nilanjana Bose
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When health workers harm: the medicalization of female genital mutilation in Egypt

02 October 2019
Community leaders in Assiut Governorate speak about female genital mutilation. © UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to Eliminate FGM
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Real men respect women, says school for husbands in Burkina Faso

03 October 2019
The school for husbands and future husbands teaches men to empower their wives through behavior change. Here, men practice domestic skills to ease the burden on their wives. © UNFPA/Ollivier Girard
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Leaders call on world to end scourge of gender violence

26 September 2019
South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have seen particularly widespread sexual and gender-based violence, both during and in the aftermath of conflict. © UNFPA DRC
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Preventable maternal deaths down from 2000, but rate of progress at a crawl

19 September 2019
The decline in maternal deaths is far from adequate, UNFPA officials say. In Yemen, a pregnant woman with cholera receives care. © UNFPA Yemen
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