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Health and violence risks multiply for women and girls in Kenya as worst drought in 40 years takes hold

Women attend a UNFPA-supported integrated community health outreach session on prevention and response to gender-based violence. Lokapararai village, Turkana county, Kenya. © UNFPA Kenya

17 October 2022

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Under increasing conflict and climate crises, young people’s mental health bears a heavy burden

Malina, 12, from Odesa in Ukraine, reads a story to her new friends at a UNFPA-supported youth safe space at a refugee accommodation centre in Chișinău, the capital of the Republic of Moldova. The safe space is one of 20 across the country, which offer counselling and psychosocial services as well as educational support for young refugees and host populations. © UNFPA Moldova

10 October 2022

Launch of the 2022 report by the High-Level Commission on the occasion of the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 third anniversary

10 November 2022

Zanzibar, Tanzania / YouTube Live

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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day of the Girl 2022

10 October 2022

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Forced into early motherhood, a child rape survivor in the Comoros fights stigma to finish school

Mariama was raped at a neighbour’s home when she was just 13 years old and forced into early motherhood. The Comoros already has high rates of gender-based violence, but many more women and girls don’t report being assaulted or abused for fear of social stigma, discrimination and even financial destitution. © UNFPA Comoros/Melvis Kimbi

26 September 2022

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“Giving up is not an option”: Hope for Afghans forced out of school

Mursal, 17, would normally be in the 12th grade. She dreams of becoming a doctor, but her education has been indefinitely postponed. © UNFPA Afghanistan

13 September 2022

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Coming together to change social norms and stand against female genital mutilation in Ethiopia

19-year-old Bereket Merihun is in seventh grade at a school in the Alata Chuko district in the Sidama region, Ethiopia. © Norwegian Church Aid

09 September 2022

Girls in Afghanistan want to go back to school

Published on: 13/09/2022

One year after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, 17-year-old Mursal is still in disbelief that she can’t go back to school.

“It’s not right that they’re ordering us to hide our faces and stop going to school. I hope that young girls will not give up,” she says.

See how Mursal is giving back to her community with UNFPA’s help.

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‘Dream and fight’: Afrodescendant nurse lifts up marginalized women in Costa Rica

Sianne Palmer Miller is a nurse of obstetrics and gynaecology working to support the health and rights of marginalized women, including indigenous women and those of African descent. © UNFPA/Gabriela Rodríguez, Juan Manuel Fernández

29 August 2022

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31 August 2022

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