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Muslim minority women break barriers to embrace family planning in Nepal

11 April 2019
Local volunteers show Nepali families the benefits of voluntary family planning. ©UNFPA Nepal
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World must work harder to secure sexual and reproductive rights for all, says new UNFPA report

10 April 2019
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Vast numbers of women lack decision-making power over their own bodies, says UNFPA flagship report

10 April 2019
Marta Paula, from Guinea-Bissau, was hospitalized when she gave birth at 13. Doctors were worried she might die. Today, she calls for young people to have access to family planning. © UNFPA/I. Barbosa
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Declaration affirms global support for reproductive health and rights

01 April 2019
More than 200 million of women and adolescent girls are not using modern contraceptives even though they want to avoid pregnancy, the 52nd Commission on Population and Development heard today. In Thailand, a UNFPA-supported emergency shelter for pregnant teens. © UNFPA/Ruth Carr
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Health, rights situation critical among women and girls in conflict-scarred Dara’a

19 March 2019
After years of conflict, the population is seeing a cascade of health and human rights problems fall "like dominoes". © UNFPA Syria/Sufian Abdul-Mouty
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Leaders call for securing sexual and reproductive health and rights in Kenya’s largest slum

11 March 2019
Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA's Executive Director, met with community role models in Kibera, the largest informal settlement in Kenya. © UNFPA
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In Burundi, sexual health education helps youth protect themselves, their futures

18 January 2019
Young people outside a youth-friendly health centre in Kamenge, Bujumbura. © UNFPA/Chiara Frisone
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Fear and exhaustion shadow Venezuelan women on the long trek to Peru

28 February 2019
“We have been traveling for a week without being able to sleep, take a shower or eat well. I get tired easily, and have vomiting and headaches," said Mariana, who is five months pregnant. © UNFPA Peru
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Female Islamic preachers call for women’s rights, contraception in Niger

27 February 2019
In this Islamic study group, older women bring up questions that younger women are too embarrassed to raise. © UNFPA WCARO/Habibou Dia
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