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Unleashing Youth Power: A Decade of Accelerating Actions Towards Zero Female Genital Mutilation
6 February 2020 – When Tabitha was growing up in rural Kenya, most of her 16-year-old peers were subjected to female genital mutilation – a human rights violation that more than 4 million girls... Read more
Sahar's fight
Sahar’s story is one of courage and resilience in the face of adversity. The 33-year-old, originally from Aleppo in Syria, left at the height of the conflict in 2011 and fled to Lebanon with her... Read more
The UN and National Commission for Lebanese Women launch a 16-day campaign against GBV
The global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (25 November-10 December) has begun. On this occasion, the United Nations System in Lebanon and the National Commission for Lebanese Women... Read more
Celebrating successes and achievements
UNFPA Lebanon and nine local partners celebrated the achievements of a three-year programme (2017-2019), whose aim was to empower women and young girls through promoting reproductive health and... Read more
A pledge to support women and girls
Over the last three years, UNFPA and its partners have been working across Lebanon on sensitization and awareness raising to empower individuals and communities to take informed decisions on family... Read more
Running for youth rights
International Youth Day celebrations took on an exceptional twist this year: almost 200 young girls and boys between the ages of 7 and 17 ran through the streets of Qalamoun, North Lebanon, in a 2K... Read more
My Body, My Life, My World! – a brand new rallying cry for the SDG generation
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on International Youth Day From their communities to their capital cities, young people everywhere are demanding their rights, as affirmed 25... Read more
A family of peer educators
Zeina, 40, and Khouloud, 38, had fallen on hard times. The sisters are from Eastern Ghouta in Syria, and following a siege, fled to Lebanon, first Khouloud in 2014 then Zeina, who lost her eldest son... Read more
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Population Day
Want to improve women’s lives and countries’ prospects for prosperity? Expand contraceptive choice. Her life. Her choice. Our future. Women have a right to make their own decisions about whether,... Read more
The Youth Forum in the Arab Region 2019: Call for youth participation
UNFPA and its partners in collaboration with the Tunisian Ministry of Youth and Sports are convening the second edition of the Youth Forum in the Arab Region in Tunisia from 20 to 22 August, 2019.... Read more