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- News, 16 May 2012 | UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, 16 May 2012 – The number of women dying of pregnancy and childbirth related complications has almost halved in 20 years, according to new estimates released today by the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Bank. Read more
- Article, 11 May 2012 | During the International Aids Conference in July in Washington the Universal Access to Female Condoms (UAFC) Joint Programme will attempt to break the Guinness World Record of longest chain of paper dolls. This is part of her Paper doll campaign, in which people from all over the world write their message on paper dolls explaining why they need female condoms. In order to break the record 30.000 dolls will be collected before and during the conference. Read more
- Article, 11 May 2012 | The Intervention Mapping Toolkit provides elaborate step by step guidance to develop sexuality education programmes for young people in a systematic way, using theories and existing evidence. Read more
- News, 01 May 2012 | NEW YORK, NY—Late Friday, 27 April 2012, at the 45th Session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD), member states issued a bold resolution in support of young people’s sexual and reproductive health and human rights. Rutgers WPF is very glad this resolution in favour of Adolescent's SRHR has been adopted. Read more
- News, 07 March 2012 | Top United Nationals officials urged Member States to tackle violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation, adding that countries cannot continue to overlook such grave violations of human rights. Read more
- Article, 01 March 2012 | 'Abortion and young People in Rwanda' contains moving personal stories from people imprisoned for committing abortion in Rwanda. Stories from university students and from parents, as well as other relevant data on unsafe abortion in Rwanda that supports the call for legalising abortion and providing safe abortion services. The booklet is collected and compiled by the Youth Action Movement. Read more
- Article, 29 February 2012 | In March 2012 Rutgers WPF will present the research report ‘Gender Based Violence in Pakistan’. This is an ground-breaking study: never before have Pakistani women been approached directly and asked to be interviewed individually. Read more
- Article, 29 February 2012 | For a follow-up of the study 'Sex under 25' almost 8,000 young people aged 12 till 25 years filled in a questionnaire on the Internet about their sexual health, careers, attitudes, feelings and competences. Read more
- Article, 28 February 2012 | In January 2012 agreement was reached to use a Standard Set of Indicators and a System for Data collection under the project Y-SAV (Youth Sexual Aggression and Victimization). These indicators help us to assess the situation of all countries in Europe with regard to youth sexual violence simultaneously. Thus, we will be better able to compare countries among themselves. The next step will be to test the indicators and adapt the system if needed. Read more
- Article, 28 February 2012 | Rwandese (youth) organisations offered a position paper on safe abortion to their President in January 2012. This position paper was the outcome of a 6 months project that resulted in a two-days meeting of supporters and opponents of abortion. Rutgers WPF financed this project. Read more
