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The 2022 Family of Woman Film Festival
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The 2022 Family of Woman Film Festival
The 14th Annual Family of Woman Film Festival comes back from September 13 – 15, 2022. The Festival was founded to support women and girls through UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health and rights agency. This year, the…
What You Didn’t Know About Teenage Pregnancy
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What You Didn’t Know About Teenage Pregnancy
Over 250 million women around the world who wish to avoid pregnancy are not using modern contraception. This is a major contributor to the 121 million unintended pregnancies women and girls experience each year. At least 10 million of these are teen pregnancies in the developing…
Sri Lanka’s once robust health system nears collapse amid crisis – and pregnant women pay the price
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Sri Lanka’s once robust health system nears collapse amid crisis – and pregnant women pay the price
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – When Ruchika became pregnant with her second child in October 2021, she could not have imagined what her life would like before delivery. Hours before delivering her baby, she found herself in a crowded distribution line, pleading…
Conflict fueling sexual violence in northern Ethiopia
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Conflict fueling sexual violence in northern Ethiopia
MEKELLE, Tigray – “We tried to flee on the back of a truck, but they caught us. They took me away, raped me and left me in the bush.” Mahlet* was just 17 when she fled her home in November 2021…

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