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UN Officials Debate the Role of Culture in Women's Empowerment
<p>UNITED NATIONS — The role of culture in promoting the empowerment of women and upholding human rights was hotly debated today by senior United Nations officials, activists and academics as the UN Economic and…
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Taking Stock: UNFPA Annual Report 2009
As UNFPA’s Executive Board was setting the course for 2010 and beyond, it took time to review the many accomplishments of 2009.
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UNFPA Delivers Essential Supplies to People Affected by Violence in Kyrgyzstan
NEW YORK — Some 300,000 persons have been displaced within Kyrgyzstan while as many as 100,000 took refuge in Uzbekistan and are now returning home, where the situation remains uncertain.
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UNFPA Responds to Urgent Needs of Victims of Kyrgyzstan Fighting
UNITED NATIONS, New York—UNFPA has been gearing up to meet the humanitarian needs of those who have fled their homes in Kyrgyzstan as a result of the violence engulfing the country since 11 June.
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Delivering as One in Viet Nam to Address the Issue of Gender-based Violence
PHU THO PROVINCE, Viet Nam — “My first year of marriage was very happy,” remembers Hoa with a smile. Everything was as she had planned. She was young, had married the man she loved and was running a successful cosmetics…
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The Women Deliver Conference Puts Maternal and Child Health in the Spotlight
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some of UNFPA’s most fundamental issues – maternal and newborn health, family planning, integration of health services and the global shortage of health care workers – are front and centre at Women…
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Women Deliver: Empowered Women and Their Powerful Stories
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “When I was nine years old I dreamed of becoming a lawyer,” Viviana Palacios, 23, from Colombia told a packed auditorium on the second day of the Women Deliver conference.
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In their Own Words: Eight Perspectives on Midwifery
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Throughout the Women Deliver conference, and the Symposium on Strengthening Midwifery that preceded it, the critical importance of midwives to meeting the Maternal Health challenge was emphasized.
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The Crown Princess Meets with Fistula Survivors at the Women Deliver Conference
In one of her first official mission as Patron for UNFPA, H.R.H. Crown Princess Mary participated in Women Deliver II, a major international conference dedicated to maternal health.
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