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11 October 2019
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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day of the Girl Child, 11 October

GirlForce: Unscripted and unstoppable on the road to Nairobi and beyond!   Around the world, girls are challenging gender stereotypes and breaking free from the traditional roles that society has... Read more

9 October 2019
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Ex-circumciser turned anti-FGM advocate

Sara Banja is an ex-circumciser. She says she has been practicing FGM for many years in her locality. With the start of the Joint Programme on Abandonment of FGM in the Boreda Woreda – one of the... Read more

22 August 2019
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ICPD 25 Commitments Survey

→ Click here to participate in the survey  Twenty-five years ago, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) took place in Cairo, Egypt. The ICPD is regarded as one of the... Read more

14 August 2019
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Ethiopia Launched the National Costed Roadmap on Child Marriage and FGM/C

Ethiopia launched  National Roadmap on Child Marriage and FGM/C costed USD 94 million to embody Ethiopia’s effort to achieve the SDG to eliminate all harmful practices. Child marriage and FGM are... Read more

17 July 2019
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UNFPA and UNICEF Jointly Signed Work Plans with the Ethiopian Government

UNFPA and UNICEF today jointly signed work plans with the Federal and Regional governments of Ethiopia. The work plans worth more than USD 10 million will be implemented in the Ethiopian Fiscal year... Read more

11 July 2019
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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Population Day

Want to improve women’s lives and countries’ prospects for prosperity? Expand contraceptive choice. Her life. Her choice. Our future. Women have a right to make their own decisions about whether... Read more

2 July 2019
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Active male engagement strengthening efforts at ending FGM and child marriage in Afar Region

Twenty-five year old Falum Zeinu has been participating in the Integrated Programme on the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Child Marriage being implemented in his district for the... Read more

20 June 2019
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Empowering women to take decisions on their wellbeing

“Before the start of the programme in my locality, women were perceived as property of men with no meaningful involvement in the community,” says forty-three year-old Zewditu Luqas speaking about the... Read more

24 May 2019
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People-centered development is critical for Africa's future to ensure the Africa We Want

UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, recommitted to the revolutionary decision taken at the 1994 International Conference... Read more

23 May 2019
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Somali Region President assures support for a UNFPA supported project funded by Denmark

A high level mission led by Karin Poulsen, Danish Ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti, South Sudan and Sudan, permanent representative to the African Union, IGAD and UNECA, was assured by the President... Read more

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