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A guiding hand: School counsellors in Sierra Leone address early pregnancy, child marriage
In Sierra Leone, 28 per cent of adolescent girls between ages 15 and 19 are pregnant or already mothers, according to a 2013 survey .
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“We are working against all odds”: Despite progress, FGM and child marriage numbers cause alarm
“We’re needing to speed up,” said UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem at a high-level event.
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Leaders call for securing sexual and reproductive health and rights in Kenya’s largest slum
“When sleeping women awake, mountains move,” said Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA’s Executive Director, quoting a Kenyan proverb at an event in the sprawling Kibera informal settlement.
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A league of extraordinary women: Real life super heroes
Women are defying the odds to secure the rights of their friends, sisters and countrywomen.
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Fear and exhaustion shadow Venezuelan women on the long trek to Peru
"We would sleep in the streets and wake up in the streets," a pregnant women told UNFPA.
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Female Islamic preachers call for women’s rights, contraception in Niger
Caring for one's reproductive health and rights is "a duty for women."
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In world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the miracle of a safe birth
Over a million pregnant women and new mothers require urgent aid in Yemen, the site of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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Surviving Ebola: “I was so afraid to die and be put in a body bag”
“I did not believe in the existence of Ebola," said Jémima Masika. Then she fell sick.
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118-truck convoy delivers urgent aid to stranded residents in Rukban, Syria
UNFPA delivered critical supplies to a remote settlement in Rukban, where residents have been stranded in the desert for years.
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