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A silent emergency: Violence against women and girls

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World Population Day 2016
Empower girls. Empower nations. When: 10 am to noon, Monday, July 11, 2016 Where: Hotel Novotel Ploenchit Sukhumvit, 566 Ploenchit Road, Bangkok [...
11 July 2016
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Landmark Report: Violence against women a ‘hidden scourge’ in Lao PDR
Report parallels findings in other countries, offers opportunity to transform mindsets Vientiane, Lao PDR – A landmark report has revealed that...
10 March 2016
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Fulfilling a Pledge: Essential Service Package for Women and Girl Survivors of Violence
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is encouraged by the progress being made on a global programme that seeks to improve the quality of, and...
8 March 2016
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Youth Information Corner in Sarmalauk manages its own ambulance service

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Fiji: reproductive health is key to recovery from Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston
Suva, Fiji – 200 emergency dignity kits provided by the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, were among the first supplies delivered to Fiji’s...
24 February 2016
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Beyond food and shelter
The Philippines - Marites, 37, was nine months pregnant when tropical storm Ondoy, one of the worst floods that hit Metro Manila, swept away her...
21 December 2015
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Young motherhood threatens girls in rural Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – At 16 years old, Svet is struggling with the challenges of motherhood. Having dropped out of school after grade 4, she had not...
19 November 2015
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One humanity and a safe birth in the wake of disaster

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Fiji: reproductive health is key to recovery from Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston
Suva, Fiji – 200 emergency dignity kits provided by the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, were among the first supplies delivered to Fiji’s...
24 February 2016
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Beyond food and shelter
The Philippines - Marites, 37, was nine months pregnant when tropical storm Ondoy, one of the worst floods that hit Metro Manila, swept away her...
21 December 2015
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Nepal Earthquake: Six Months Later
The April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, the country's worst in almost a century, caused devastation on a massive scale.  But it also brought people...
25 October 2015
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Time to Put Women and Young People at Centre of Humanitarian Action

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Fiji: reproductive health is key to recovery from Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston
Suva, Fiji – 200 emergency dignity kits provided by the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, were among the first supplies delivered to Fiji’s...
24 February 2016
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Beyond food and shelter
The Philippines - Marites, 37, was nine months pregnant when tropical storm Ondoy, one of the worst floods that hit Metro Manila, swept away her...
21 December 2015
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Nepal Earthquake: Six Months Later
The April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, the country's worst in almost a century, caused devastation on a massive scale.  But it also brought people...
25 October 2015
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Report: UNFPA Responding to Emergencies across Asia and the Pacific

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Fiji: reproductive health is key to recovery from Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston
Suva, Fiji – 200 emergency dignity kits provided by the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, were among the first supplies delivered to Fiji’s...
24 February 2016
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Beyond food and shelter
The Philippines - Marites, 37, was nine months pregnant when tropical storm Ondoy, one of the worst floods that hit Metro Manila, swept away her...
21 December 2015
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Nepal Earthquake: Six Months Later
The April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, the country's worst in almost a century, caused devastation on a massive scale.  But it also brought people...
25 October 2015
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Fiji: reproductive health is key to recovery from Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston

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Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and UNFPA Executive Director Dr Kanem interact with the Nabavatu community
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PRESS RELEASE: Women and girls on the front line of the climate crisis
Patron of UNFPA, H.R.H. Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem conclude an official mission to Fiji, which...
26 April 2023
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Australia provides more for women and girls in Post-Cyclone Winston response
UNFPA Pacific, Suva, Fiji – The Government of Australia has provided an additional AU$400,000 (FJ$629,000.00) to support the United Nations...
7 March 2016
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Beyond food and shelter
The Philippines - Marites, 37, was nine months pregnant when tropical storm Ondoy, one of the worst floods that hit Metro Manila, swept away her...
21 December 2015
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Beyond food and shelter

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In a deadly typhoon’s wake, a women-led mobile facility meets sexual and reproductive health needs
The Women's Health on Wheels facility in Saint Bernard in Typhoon Rai/Odette-affected Southern Leyte was stationed next to a school compound...
15 March 2022
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Women and girls pay a heavy price during conflicts and emergencies
More than 1.7 million people, mostly women and children, have now fled from their homes in Ukraine to neighbouring countries. For them, displacement...
7 March 2022
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Fiji: reproductive health is key to recovery from Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston
Suva, Fiji – 200 emergency dignity kits provided by the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, were among the first supplies delivered to Fiji’s...
24 February 2016
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Nepal Earthquake: Six Months Later

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Resources
Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings in South Asia: Policy Brief (Earthquake-affected Districts in Nepal)
This policy brief summarises key findings from two of the most severely earthquake-affected districts in Nepal, Sindhupalchowk and Dolakha, based on...
22 June 2021
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Publications
Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings in South Asia
The extent to which humanitarian settings impact child marriage practices and the processes through which they may modify its drivers are not fully ...
8 October 2020
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Shilpa Sunar talks with women in her community about COVID-19 and issues facing adolescent girls | Image: UNFPA Nepal
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In Nepal, adolescent girls band together, showing communities ‘she counts’
Exposed to poverty and damaging notions that girls are less valuable than boys, many girls in rural Nepal accept these conditions as fate. But...
30 June 2020
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