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11 July 2016
Press Release
Investing in teenage girls for a more just, stable and peaceful world
The teenage years are for some girls a time of exploration, learning and increasing autonomy. But for many others, it is a time of increasing vulnerability and exclusion from…
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16 June 2016
Syrian Girl Bags UNFPA Social Innovation Grant For Online Learning Platform for Arabic ‘Coding’
Leen Darwish, 23 years, is like a Syrian girl next door, except that she has dreams to teach computing and software coding in Arabic language to thousands of Syrians and Arabs in…
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09 June 2016
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My only dream is to give my daughter a life that was stolen from me
Syria, Damascus Countryside -- “I was given life again.” This is how Ranim, a divorced 16 year-old girl and a violence survivor from Syria, said to express her…
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20 May 2016
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Bringing new hope in lives of Syrian women survivors of family-based violence
Damascus, Syria -- One look at Amal*, 46, and you can tell that she is feeling miserable inside. The red and blue bruises on her face provide a glimpse of her battered…
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09 May 2016
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Mine explosion hits Mariam and her 16 weeks old baby
Al-Hassakeh, North-Eastern Syria -- During a journey trying to cross the borders by foot from her home at al-Hole village, in Al-Hassakeh, at the north-eastern part of Syria…
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08 May 2016
A warm UNFPA welcome to Ruba, our first female Local Security Assistant!
A warm UNFPA welcome to Ruba, our first female Local Security Assistant! The UNFPA Syria Country Office has the distinction of being the first country office to successfully…
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16 March 2016
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Midwife Finds her Work with Refugees Challenging and Rewarding
ZA’ATRI CAMP, Jordan –- Holding a newborn in her hands is like “heaven” says a young midwife Ghadeer Taher Horani, who struggled to find the exact…
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