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Leading the response to child marriage
KONGELAI VILLAGE, West Pokot, Kenya – Married at age 9 to a 60-year-old man, Sarah Lotupokol, 15, knows how lucky she is. The help she has received from a group of women in her community to escape... Read more
Peering at FGM through the health lens
The fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is relentless with stories of girls such as 14-year-old Lororua Nasiiku recently fleeing her motherland, Samburu, to escape the knife. Partners such... Read more
The Tyranny of Violence Against Women and Girls: 16 Days Of Activism
According to the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey of Kenya, 4 out of every 10 Kenyan women undergo some form of violence, whether physical or sexual. This figure is staggering and should... Read more
The world's most dangerous place to be pregnant
Mandera, Kenya (CNN)The hospital in this remote region of Kenya has no blood in its blood bank, and Fardowsa Abdi is about to die. The 25-year-old went into labor days ago. But with no medical... Read more
From despair to hope
Mandera in north-eastern Kenya has often been described as “the worst place on earth to give birth”. Mandera’s maternal mortality rate stands at 3,795 deaths per 100,000 live births, almost double... Read more
The 'most dangerous' place to give birth
Mandera county in north eastern Kenya is one of the most dangerous places in the world for a woman to give birth. Out of every 100,000 births nearly 3,800 women die during delivery. Watch BBC Africa... Read more
Development agencies join First Lady for Beyond Zero campaign
MANDERA, Kenya, Nov 6 – Twenty International Agencies including fifteen from the United Nations , the World Bank and three embassies today joined First Lady Margaret Kenyatta when she delivered the... Read more
Statement of the UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin on the launch of The State of World Population 2013
The aim of UNFPA's State of World Population 2013 is to provoke a new way of thinking about and tackling adolescent pregnancy and to encourage a... Read more
Youth have right to full sexual education
Denying our children such life-saving information is not only bad parenting, but also a violation of their rights. Opinion piece published in the Daily Nation. Read it here
Transforming Mandera County’s Deadly Reputation For Maternal Health
By Siddharth Chatterjee (@sidchat1) - UNFPA Representative to Kenya. For many women in Mandera County a hard to reach, insecure and arid part of North Eastern Kenya, the story of life from childhood... Read more