01 May 2020
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Women and youth helped bring change in Sudan and can limit spread of COVID-19 KHARTOUM — The COVID-19 pandemic is set to exacerbate pre-existing gender inequalities and the…
Read story12 August 2019
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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on International Youth Day From their communities to their capital cities, young people everywhere are demanding their…
Read story11 July 2019
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Want to improve women’s lives and countries’ prospects for prosperity? Expand contraceptive choice. Her life. Her choice. Our future. Women have a…
Read story10 April 2019
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UNITED NATIONS, New York, 10 April 2019— The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women,…
Read story06 February 2019
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Mary Oloiparuni was 13 when she was mutilated. Restrained in a doorway early one morning in her home, she was cut, bled profusely and experienced agonizing pain. The scarring she…
Read story06 June 2018
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Year on year, millions of women and adolescents in 155 countries and territories have been progressively able to exercise their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Read story13 May 2018
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Fifty years ago, on 13 May, the world declared family planning to be a basic human right.
Read story13 May 2018
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UNFPA and the World Health Organization have recognized nine standards that must be met in every community, for every individual.
Read story21 February 2018
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Khartoum 21 February 2018- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Ministry of International Cooperation (MIC), signed The Country Program Action Plan (2018- 2021) with a…
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