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UNFPA’s Events during the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly

16 September 2022

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News

On the border between Brazil and Venezuela, safe spaces offer hope and information

UNFPA’s humanitarian response team working at the safe space in Pacaraima, Brazil. © UNFPA Brazil/Isabela Martel
  • 14 September 2022
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News

“Giving up is not an option”: Hope for Afghans forced out of school

Mursal, 17, would normally be in the 12th grade. She dreams of becoming a doctor, but her education has been indefinitely postponed. © UNFPA Afghanistan
  • 13 September 2022
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Resources

Intensifying efforts to end obstetric fistula within a decade: Report of the Secretary-General (A/77/229)

Resource date: Jul 2022

Publisher: Office of the UN Secretary General

The UN Secretary-2022 General's report brings to the General Assembly's attention existing and new challenges to ending obstetric fistula within a decade, including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which have exacerbated the root causes of this devastating childbirth injury. The report outlines efforts made at the global, regional, and national levels and makes recommendations to intensify these efforts to end fistula by 2030, using human rights-based and gender transformative approaches.

News

Coming together to change social norms and stand against female genital mutilation in Ethiopia

19-year-old Bereket Merihun is in seventh grade at a school in the Alata Chuko district in the Sidama region, Ethiopia. © Norwegian Church Aid
  • 09 September 2022
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Girls in Afghanistan want to go back to school

Published on: 13/09/2022

One year after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, 17-year-old Mursal is still in disbelief that she can’t go back to school.

“It’s not right that they’re ordering us to hide our faces and stop going to school. I hope that young girls will not give up,” she says.

See how Mursal is giving back to her community with UNFPA’s help.

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