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25 January 2021
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By escaping female genital mutilation, I was able to help others - Fatmata’s story
FGM is a practice that involves altering or injuring the female genitalia for non-medical reasons, and it is internationally recognised as a human rights violation. Globally, it…
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14 December 2020
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Ensuring adolescent girls continue their education amid the COVID-19 pandemic
When schools closed in March this year as part of the government’s coronavirus mitigation strategies, Fatmata S. Kamara, aged 17 from Mombolo Chiefdom, Kambia District was among…
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10 December 2020
Statement
Standing up for human rights more important than ever
Human rights are universal principles, yet as Eleanor Roosevelt once reminded us, they begin in “small places, close to home…. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have…
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03 December 2020
Statement
The health systems we build back after COVID-19 must reach everyone
Persons with disabilities have the same rights as everyone else, as affirmed in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. All countries should have fully…
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25 November 2020
Statement
Stand up and say ‘enough’ to violence
Enough! That’s what we say, today and every day, to all forms of violence against women and girls. Enough to domestic violence. Enough to rape. Enough to harmful practices like…
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24 November 2020
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UNFPA implements numerous measures at Bo Government Hospital to improve obstetric care services
With financial support from UK Aid through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) Saving Lives in Sierra Leone Programme, UNFPA works with Doctors with Africa…
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12 November 2020
Press Release
Despite global COVID-19 crisis, governments uphold support for women and girls’ health and rights, one year after historic Summit
A year ago, at the landmark Nairobi Summit on ICPD25, the world came together to commit to ending preventable maternal death, the unmet need for contraception, and gender-based…
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05 November 2020
Press Release
UNFPA provides back to school kits to 1000 adolescent girls in three districts
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) through its partner, Women in Crisis Movement, with funding from Irish Aid, is providing 1,000 vulnerable girls from various schools in…
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08 October 2020
Statement
Let’s listen to girls and uphold their rights
For millions of girls around the world, silence is enforced through female genital mutilation, child marriage and other harmful practices. Not only do these practices violate a…
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