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• “Sex happens – let’s make it safe” - Reception in the European Parliament

  10 July 2012

  Reception in the European Parliament demonstrates Europe’s support for women’s reproductive rights on the eve of the London Family Planning Summit.

• UNFPA Briefing on the ICPD Beyond 2014 Review Process

  28 June 2012

  GENEVA – As the 20th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) approaches, efforts are underway to revitalize and re-energize the Programme of Action (PoA) adopted by 179 Member States in Cairo in 1994. Part of that work will center around the operational review process now underway around the implementation of the ICPD PoA.

• UNFPA/UNICEF Report: 2000 African Communities Abandoned FGM/C Last Year

  06 February 2012

  GENEVA – More than 2,000 communities, most of them in Africa, decided to abandon female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in 2011, according to a report released on 6 February.
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