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UNFPA Arab States Regional Office launches ‘A Women Even Here’ campaign
18 March 2020
Cairo, 8 March 2020 – UNFPA Arab States Regional Office (ASRO) is marking this year’s International Women’s Day by launching a digital awareness and fundraising campaign ‘A Woman…
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UNFPA sounds the alarm on dire situation facing women and girls in Syria, as conflict enters its 10th year
16 March 2020
NEW YORK, USA, 16 March 2020 - UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, expresses increasing concern about the women and girls trapped in the escalating…
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Statement
I am Generation Equality: Working together to achieve a gender-equal world
06 March 2020
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on International Women's Day
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Statement on the events taking place in Northwestern Syria
19 February 2020
Cairo, 18 February 2020 - UNFPA is gravely alarmed about the current humanitarian situation unfolding in northwestern Syria, where hostilities have continued to cause mass…
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Leashing the power of young people to end FGM
06 February 2020
UNFPA, in collaboration with the Ministry of Women and Family, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Muslim Affairs, and the National Union of Djiboutian Women, marked the…
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Statement
Unleashing Youth Power: A Decade of Accelerating Actions Towards Zero Female Genital Mutilation
05 February 2020
6 February 2020 – “When Tabitha was growing up in rural Kenya, most of her 16-year-old peers were subjected to female genital mutilation – a human rights violation that more than…
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What is FGM?
02 February 2020
By now, it is not a secret that FGM is a harmful practice. There is no shortage of medical evidence to prove so, and many religious leaders spoke against its religious reasoning…
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Statement
Dr. Luay Shabaneh expresses sorrow for the death of a young girl due to the complications of circumcision
01 February 2020
Nada, a12years old girl from Assiut Governorate, Egypt, lost her life to join the victims of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
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A Parliamentarian Group on Population and Development set to follow-up on ICPD PoA
23 January 2020
As part of the national follow-up on Djibouti Commitment at Nairobi Summit, the Parliament of Djibouti in collaboration with UNFPA established a Parliamentarian Group on…
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