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Global Lawmakers Adopt Resolution to Support Maternal and Child Health
KAMPALA -- The Inter-Parliamentary Union, the world’s largest body of lawmakers, has approved a resolution to secure access to health, as a basic human right, for women and children.
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Log In and Listen: Melinda Gates Shares her Thoughts about Family Planning
BERLIN— The Big Picture, a TEDxChange event about applying new perspectives to development issues, launches 5 April. Convened by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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UNFPA Executive Director Urges Parliamentarians to Keep People at the Centre of Development
KAMPALA – Parliamentarians have a crucial role to play in ensuring meaningful, people-centred development.
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Three Winners Announced for the '1 in 7 Billion' Film Competition
Three short films capturing three very different perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of today’s complex world have been voted as winners in the ‘1 in 7 Billion’ film contest.
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So Many Mouths to Feed: Addressing High Fertility in Famine-Stricken Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia– In Dabke camp for internally displaced persons in Mogadishu, Muno Abukar shares a tent with her eight children. Fleeing the famine, the family left their home in Lower Shabelle five months ago.
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Learning to Love the Female Condom in Uganda
NEBBI, Uganda — Hundreds of women from all walks of life gathered in a school field here recently to celebrate International Women’s Day.
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Technology to the Rescue: Innovative Tools for Responding to Disaster
The world is connected as never before. Radio reaches even the most remote and vulnerable, and the number of mobile phones has grown exponentially over the past decade.
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Talking Census Under the Baobob Tree
BUYU, Zanzibar — In this picturesque village on the outskirts of Zanzibar Town, UNFPA programme officers joined colleagues from the Office of the Chief Statistician in Zanzibar to learn more about the pilot census…
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UNFPA Executive Director Addresses Sun Valley Film Festival
UNITED NATIONS, New York — UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, last week visited Sun Valley, Idaho, where he was the key guest of honour at the Fifth Family of Women Film Festival.
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