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Calling on Youth Leaders: This Is Your Chance to Effect Change
On 4-6 December 2012, over 900 youth leaders, representing every country, will have an unprecedented opportunity to be heard when they convene in Bali to develop official recommendations for the United Nations…
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Delivering Babies and Smiles to Syrian Refugees
CYBER CITY, Jordan -- To one new mother, whose baby she delivered safely in a clinic, she is like a second mother. To another, whose breast cancer she detected, she is a ‘saving angel'.
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African Ministers Pledge to Speed Access to Life-Saving Commodities for All Women and Children
ABUJA, Nigeria – At the ministerial meeting of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children, health ministers from seven African countries committed to speed-up access to and use of 13…
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On World’s First International Day of the Girl Child, UN Calls for End to Child Marriage
<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York --- The United Nations today marked the first International Day of the Girl Child by calling for an end to child marriage, and stressing education as one of the best strategies for…
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UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities Opens in Abuja
ABUJA, Nigeria -- A meeting of the UN Commission on Life Saving Commodities for Women and Children opened here today to discuss good practices to increase access to life-saving commodities and review draft…
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Reaching the Most Vulnerable Amid the Violence in Syria
DAMASCUS — Around 2.5 million people, of whom 625,000 are estimated to be women of reproductive age, are directly affected by the escalating violence in Syria.
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Malagasy Women Wounded by Child Marriage and its Aftermath
TULEAR, Madagascar – Madagascar has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, with devastating effects on the lives of the girls affected.
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Creating a Future Where Women and Girls are Protected and their Rights Respected
<p>In remarks at the annual Friends of UNFPA Gala Dinner for the Health and Dignity of Women and Girls Everywhere, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discussed many ongoing efforts to promote the rights and improve…
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Empowering Girls in Nepal to Say ‘No’ to Child Marriage
KAPILVASTU, Nepal—Bijay Laxmi, 15 years old, has been married since she was 11. In a few months, she will move in with the family of a husband she doesn’t know.
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