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Emergency Efforts are Giving Displaced Women More Options in Darfur
SOUTH DARFUR, Sudan—When she fled from violence a year ago, Fatima Hashem Ali had little idea that she would soon regain part of her previous life.
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Sudan: UNFPA Prescribes a New Lease on Health and Life for Kalma’s Mothers and Newborns
DARFUR, Sudan—With a faint voice and half-closed eyes, Hajja was able to briefly tell her story.
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The Ecuador Free Maternity Law: Crucial Advance for Reproductive Health and Rights
ECUADOR—Ecuador's Parliament passed a landmark piece of legislation in 1998.
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Jambi Huasi – Health Care that Speaks to Indigenous Communities in Ecuador
OTAVALO, Ecuador —Most of the residents of this city, sprawled across a high plateau in the Andes, are Quechua-speaking descendents of the Incas.
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Youth: Changing Attitudes, Improving Lives in Ecuador
ECUADOR—Cradled in an emerald green valley high in the Andes Mountains in southeast Ecuador, the town of Zamora doesn’t look like it’s on the ‘cutting edge’ of anything.
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World Population Day 2005: Observances Around the World
A number of events, held by UNFPA and its partners on World Population Day, 11 July, raised awareness of population and development issues worldwide.
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Meeting Women's Needs, Supporting Aceh's Future
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—The people of Aceh are eager to get their lives back.
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UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Becomes Youngest Portuguese to Win National Honour
LISBON, Portugal—Portuguese actress and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, Catarina Furtado, has been awarded Portugal's "Ordem de Mérito – Comendador," as part of her country's national day celebrations in…
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Voices of Youth on HIV/AIDS
UNITED NATIONS, New York—To win the battle against HIV and AIDS, it is crucial that young people be seen as actors, rather than spectators, and as part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.
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