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This is how much it will cost to realize the world we want
13 November 2019News
As fighting rages in north-eastern Syria, UNFPA and partners rush to meet the needs of women
11 December 2019Icons & Activists: 50 years of people making change
Number of pages: 240
Publication date: 14 November 2019
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of UNFPA and the 25th of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, this book showcases the "change makers" who have made substantial contributions to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and population and development more broadly. The purpose of this book is to give some sense of how much has been achieved through the efforts of so many - and perhaps to offer inspiration for the future.
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Imagine a world...
November 13, 2019Imagine a world where no one is subjected to violence because of their gender, where no girl is forced to marry, where no girl of woman is subjected to female genital mutilation of harmful practice. Imagine a world where every couple can decide freely when and if to have children.
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When health workers harm: the medicalization of female genital mutilation in Egypt
02 October 2019News
Real men respect women, says school for husbands in Burkina Faso
03 October 2019News
Life-saving services at risk as humanitarian funding dries up in Yemen
06 September 2019News
Preventable maternal deaths down from 2000, but rate of progress at a crawl
19 September 2019News
In this Comorian community, an ambulance horn is music to one’s ears
03 September 2019Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017 Executive Summary
Resource date: 19 September 2019
Author: UNFPA, World Health Organization, UNICEF, World Bank Group, the United Nations Population Division
This Executive Summary provides a snapshot of the contents of the Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017 report, which shows internationally comparable global, regional and country-level estimates and trends for maternal mortality between 2000 and 2017.