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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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Honouring the Efforts of a Pakistani Youth Activist
<p>LAHORE --- Muhammad Shahzad Khan, the 27-year-old founder and executive director of Chanan Development Association, told audience of 500 in New York that young people in Pakistan are ready to make their society…
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Older Tanzanian Women Face Allegations of Witchcraft
<p>SUKUMALAND, Tanzania--- Nyamizi, a 73-year-old widow from Sukumaland, Tanzania, was returning home from work one night when she was attacked by a man with a machete. He chopped off her hand and slashed her head…
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Task Force to Kick Start Cairo Population Goals
UNITED NATIONS--A high-level task force was recently formed to bolster efforts in support of the goals of the International Conference on Population and Development that was held in Cairo in 1994
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Task Force to Kick Start Cairo Goals
<p>UNITED NATIONS --- Gathered at the Ford Foundation in New York Monday, international luminaries, family planning experts and women’s rights activists repeatedly expressed a common sentiment: “I cannot believe…
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UNFPA Patron Promotes Safe Motherhood and Joins High-level Task Force on ICPD
A high-level task force was recently formed to bolster efforts in support of the goals of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) that was held in Cairo in 1994.
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Keeping a Focus on Women and Young People at the General Assembly
The 67th regular session of the UN General Assembly began last week against a backdrop of violence and tensions in the Arab World, and a damping down of some of the excitement and hope that animated last year’s meeting…
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Syrian Refugee Delivers Safely in a UNFPA-Supported Clinic
Thirty-year-old Khloloud Mohammad was seven months pregnant when she and her husband and seven children walked for four hours, surviving shelling in her hometown of Nasib, to reach the Jordanian border. Every step was a…
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Social Good Summit: Delivering Progress Using New Ideas and Platforms
NEW YORK – Fifty blocks north of United Nations headquarters where the General Assembly convenes this week, a whole other cadre of development practitioners were excitedly sharing their own plans for ending poverty,…
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