UNFPA Sri Lanka empowers youth to reach their full potential . We do this by working at the National and sub-national level and by engaging with multi-sectoral partners across the island.
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Sexual and reproductive health
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Fulfilling Youth Potential
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28 November 2016
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25 Years of Advocating Towards a World Free of Gender-based Violence
25 November 2016
Colombo, 25 November 2016: Violence against women is a global issue that touches everyone. In Sri Lanka, one out of four females is sexually abused by the time they reach 18 years of age in Sri Lanka.
This year marks 25 years since the start of the campaign ‘16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence’ (GBV). The global campaign runs from 25 November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) leading up to 10 December (Human Rights Day), advocating for the elimination of all forms of GBV against women around the world.
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UNFPA supports Ministry of Health in implementation of the National Condom Strategy 2016-2020
11 November 2016
Colombo, 11 November 2016: Although Sri Lanka’s prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS is less than 0.01%, there are factors for triggering of a concentrated epidemic in the country. Health authorities of Sri Lanka relentlessly monitor the trends and make timely interventions in the country’s efforts to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, as part of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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UNFPA
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Youth Policy Programme: Pre- brief (Sinhala)
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16 November 2016
UNFPA Sri Lanka has had a long standing relationship with the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, during the war and the immediate aftermath including the resettlement period providing and ensuring reproductive health care services, distribution of maternity kits among pregnant women and hygiene/dignity kits amongst women and girls of reproductive age. It is with this background that UNFPA Sri Lanka is now engaging with the Eastern Provincial Council Ministry of Youth Affairs to develop a Provincial Youth Policy.
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Youth Policy Programme: Pre- brief (Tamil)
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16 November 2016
UNFPA Sri Lanka has had a long standing relationship with the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, during the war and the immediate aftermath including the resettlement period providing and ensuring reproductive health care services, distribution of maternity kits among pregnant women and hygiene/dignity kits amongst women and girls of reproductive age. It is with this background that UNFPA Sri Lanka is now engaging with the Eastern Provincial Council Ministry of Youth Affairs to develop a Provincial Youth Policy.
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UNFPA Yemen
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Monthly Situation Report #09 – October 2016
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13 November 2016
Following 19 months of fighting, the armed conflict and its consequences continue to drive the large-scale humanitarian emergency in Yemen. On 8 October 2016, airstrikes hit a large community hall killing more than 140 and injuring 600 people according to local health authorities. The UN has condemned the attack and called for effective investigations into allegations of international crimes and violations of international law. A UN brokered 72-hour ceasefire from 19 to 22 October 2016 provided some respite to Yemeni’s but was short-lived and breached by warring parties.
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UNFPA Sri Lanka facilitates Provincial-Level Youth Policy discussions in the East
10 November 2016
Batticaloa, 10 November 2016: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Sri Lanka, through its Youth Policy Programme, works with all Provincial Councils in the country to bring together multi-stakeholders to formulate comprehensive Youth Policies at Provincial-level. Since the start of the Youth Policy Programme in December 2014, UNFPA has facilitated multi-stakeholder engagements with the Provincial Councils of the Southern Province, Sabaragamuwa Province, and the Northern Province.
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Investing in 10 year-old girls. West and Central Africa launch of SWOP 2016
West and Central Africa / Conakry / Guinea - 20 October 2016: President Alpha Condé joined the UNFPA Regional Director Mabingue Ngom to undertake the regional high-level launch of the SWOP in the presence of over 50 young girls, 10 Ministers of Youth from across WCA, several Guinean Ministers, several youth leaders and journalists, the Secretary-General of the Mano River Union, the Resident Coordinator and several heads of mission from across the UN system and development partners.
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165
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UNFPA
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Crime and Mental Health Issues among the Young Bhutanese People
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08 November 2015
This monograph presents the findings from the analyses of the police crime data, National Health Survey data (NHS, 2012), mental health records (OPD) of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH), and qualitative data collected using the face-to-face interviews of 44 inmates of Chamgang Jail and Youth Development and Rehabilitation centre (YDRC).
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42
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UNFPA
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MENSTRUAL HYGIENE GUIDE
Publication date
08 November 2016
མི་མང་གསོ་བའི་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་ ཡོངས་ཁྱབ་མདོ་ཆེན་ ཌོག་ཊར་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་གིས་ ཟླ་ ཁྲག་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་ལག་དེབ་ གསར་བཟོ་འབད་མི་འདི་ གཏན་འཁེལ་བཟོ་དོན་ལུ་ སྐྱེ་རྒྱུན་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་ ལས་རིམ་ལུ་ ལམ་སྟོན་དང་སླབ་བྱ་ ལ་སོགས་པའི་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ ཧྲིལ་པོར་གནང་མི་འདི་ལུ་ དམིགས་ གསལ་གྱི་བཀྲིན་དགའ་ཚོར་སྦོམ་ཡོད་ཟེར་ཞུ་ནི་ཨིན།
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