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20 October 2016
Statement
Launch of The State of World Population 2016
Welcome to the release of The State of World Population 2016, published by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
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20 October 2016
The power of 10: Ten astonishing facts about 10-year-old girls
The world’s future will be determined by the fate of its 10-year-old girls.
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20 October 2016
Press Release
UNFPA State of World Population 2016
Forced marriage, child labour, female genital mutilation and other practices undermining girls’ health and rights threaten the world’s ambitious development agenda, warns UNFPA,…
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20 October 2016
News
Investing in girls at 10 will get a country excellent returns
Ten-year-old Temawelase is a sixth-grader in a rural community in the Hhohho region of Swaziland. Almost 4000 miles away, her age-mate Daline has just finished primary school in…
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19 October 2016
Press Release
Responding to the needs of Women and Girls Subject to Violence: a comprehensive package
Together with UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, UN Women is launching the “Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence” on Thursday, October 19 in…
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18 October 2016
Statement
Protection of Women and Girls in Mosul
Statement by Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNFPA, to the United Nations Population Fund, on the Protection of Women…
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17 October 2016
Statement
Access to quality sexual and reproductive health care can help end extreme poverty
Statement of UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, 17 October 2016
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11 October 2016
Statement
Making Girls Count in the Sustainable Development Goals Era
Statement of UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, on the International Day of the Girl Child, 11 October 2016
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04 October 2016
After harrowing escape, South Sudan woman welcomes healthy twins
BENTIU, South Sudan – Nyador Dagey, 35, was three months pregnant and bleeding from a gunshot wound when she fled her village in Rubkona County, in South Sudan’s in Unity State,…
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