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Press Release
United Nations Population Fund and Global Citizen launch worldwide “#showyourselfie” petition - mobilizing millions to say “YOUNG PEOPLE MATTER!”
12 August 2014
NEW YORK, 12 AUGUST, 2014 - On International Youth Day, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund and Global Citizen are launching #showyourselfie, a global campaign to urge…
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UNFPA responds to the needs of some 36,000 pregnant women displaced in Pakistan
25 July 2014
For over a month, more than 900,000 people from Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency have been displaced due to a government-launched military operation. UNFPA, the United Nations…
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World Population Day in Asia-Pacific: Selfies, creative contests and calls for youth-led policies
23 July 2014
BANGKOK—The Asia-Pacific region marked World Population Day (11 July) with a flurry of “selfie” campaigns and creative contests organized by country offices of UNFPA, the United…
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Statement
Message for World Population Day: the power of young people
11 July 2014
11 July 2014 - Today’s 1.8 billion young people are a powerful force, individually and collectively. They are shaping social and economic realities, challenging norms and values…
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News
Mongolian musicians take back public spaces with Orange Sessions
25 June 2014
ULAANBANTAR, MONGOLIA – Illuminating an urban alleyway, the soulful singer-songwriter Chimika performed at UNFPA Mongolia’s very first Orange Session on Wednesday, June 25
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Mobile teams resume reproductive health care in Rakhine, Myanmar
23 June 2014
SITTWE, Myanmar – UNFPA-supported mobile medical teams have resumed providing life-saving reproductive health services in 15 camps for displaced people in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
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Press Release
Investing in midwifery can save millions of lives of women and newborns
04 June 2014
BANGKOK—More midwives and midwifery services could reduce maternal and newborn deaths by two thirds, saving millions of lives each year, according to a new report. The State of…
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Sri Lanka adopts new guidelines for addressing sexual abuse survivors with dignity
04 June 2014
COLOMBO—Sri Lanka last week launched its first medico-legal guidelines for examining and caring for survivors of sexual abuse and reporting the abuse to law enforcement…
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In Nepal, fight against obstetric fistula marches on
30 May 2014
DHARAN, Nepal – Dhani Devi Mukhiya remembers the days when her relatives shunned her in public and her husband threatened to bring home another wife. For some of the villagers in…
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