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American Idol’s David Cook Helps Brighten the Future for Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Last month, David Cook, season seven winner of the popular television competition, American Idol, learned first-hand about the challenges faced by vulnerable adolescent girls in the slums of…
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Ending Harmful Practices through Community-led Social Change in Senegal
Many organizations are working to eliminate female genital mutilation/cutting in Africa. But the organization that has been most successful in this, Senegal’s Tostan, was not originally focused on this particular…
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Dignity Kits: Helping Displaced Yemeni Women Move About Freely
SA’ADA, Yemen --- “We suffered a lot before reaching this camp,” recalls Khadija, 25, who has been affected by years of conflict in northern Yemen.
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Rwanda Steps up to the Challenge of Universal Reproductive Health Care
RWAMAGANA, Rwanda — The health centre just on the outskirts of town seems to be a community hub: Near the main clinic men, women and children sit around the perimeter of a courtyard waiting to be seen by a health worker.
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Strengthening Business Practices in a Delivering as One Country
UNFPA DED (External Relations, UN Affairs and Management) Mari Simonen co-lead a high-level mission to Viet Nam with the High Level Committee on Management (HLCM) and the United Nations Development Group (UNDG).
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Panel Highlights the Contribution of Maternal Health to Achievement of the MDGs
UNITED NATIONS — As the Commission on Population and Development addressed the overall theme of health, mortality, morbidity and development, a side panel organized by UNFPA looked at the contribution of reproductive…
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Commission on Population and Development Considers Health, Mortality, Morbidity and Development
UNITED NATIONS — Ms. Purnima Mane, UNFPA Deputy Executive Director (Programme), this morning delivered an opening statement at the 43rd Session of Commission on Population and Development, whose theme is health,…
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Uncharted Territory: Emerging Population Issues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
NEW YORK – The combination of extremely low birth rates, migration losses and moderate mortality is leading to both rapid population decline and ageing in many countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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Abandoning Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation in the Afar Region of Ethiopia
AWASH, Afar Region, Ethiopia — A smile formed on Dohra Ali’s face when she recalled what her eldest daughter asked her a couple of years ago. “Mother, is there a place in this world where FGM is not practised where I…
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