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UNFPA’s Events during the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly
16 September 2022
Media Advisory
16 September 2022
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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.
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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.