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![Vue d'ensemble du Forum des leaders traditionnels et religieux](https://drc.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/sans_titre_12.png?itok=NOcamOt7)
The national forum of traditional and religious leaders to end GBV
The UN Assistant-Secretary General and Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA, took partin the national forum of traditional and religious leaders to... Read more
![UNFPA Deputy Executive Director with a woman who has had obstetric fistula surgery](https://drc.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/sans_titre_18.jpg?itok=Dva9opqa)
Visit to an obstetric fistula care center
The BENIKER polyclinic in Lubumbashi, supported by UNFPA, which provides care for obstetric fistula, received a visit from the Deputy Executive... Read more
![The President of the National Assembly and the Deputy Executive Director](https://drc.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/sans_titre_15.jpg?itok=m-abKVlX)
The Deputy Executive Director's engagements
During her stay, the Deputy Executive Director/Programme had several audiences. These audiences were opportunities to advocate for population issues... Read more
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With UNFPA staff in DRC
The UNFPA Deputy Executive Director began her visit to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with a meeting with the country office... Read more
![UNFPA Deputy Executive Director with the UN Country Team in DRC](https://drc.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/_dsc3212.jpg?itok=0nUqT2G9)
With the UN Resident Coordinator and the UN Country Team in DRC
The UN Assistant-Secretary General and Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA met with the UN Country Team (UNCT) in the DRC and the Resident Coordinator... Read more
![Rebecca Wimana with her newborn twins Mwayonimana (left) and Issaka Kwiseka (right), who were born at Tata Mwami Rugabo II.](https://drc.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/madame_rebecca_wimana_avec_ses_jumeaux_dans_le_camps_des_deplaces.jpg?itok=yPap59aG)
Woman finds hope in safe birth of twins, after losing everything when her home was burned
Rebecca Wimana was seven months pregnant when she lost her house in Jomba in the conflict raging in the DRC. "When I heard the bombings, we left... Read more
![UN Secretary General António Guterres](https://drc.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/secretaire_generale.jpg?itok=_7RnZlly)
UN DAY MESSAGE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTÓNIO GUTERRES
24 octobre 2022 L’Organisation des Nations Unies est née d’un espoir.
![Sifa, 19, from Quissanga in Mozambique.](https://drc.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/sifa_19_from_quissanga_mozambique._unfpa_mozambique-mbuto_machili.jpg?itok=1oJF1GG1)
Disturbing rise in teenage pregnancy, child marriage, gender-based violence and HIV infection in adolescent girls in East and Southern Africa – we need to act collectively and with urgency
Girls’ sheer resilience in the face of adversity is cause for celebration this International Day of The Girl Child. While East and Southern Africa... Read more
![UNFPA Executive Director](https://drc.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/ed_unfpa.png?itok=itNsQBvY)
ED statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
When wars begin, so does the terror and devastation of sexual violence. The bodies of women and girls become battlefields. Rape is used as a weapon of war just as surely as the bomb that blows up a... Read more
![At 14, Dankay Kanu (right) got pregnant by an older man who refused to wear a condom then denied paternity. Though she quit school, she has since returned while raising her son, Ishmael, alone. "To be a mother at this age is really not easy," she said. © UNFPA/Michael Duff At 14, Dankay Kanu (right) got pregnant by an older man who refused to wear a condom then denied paternity. Though she quit scho](https://drc.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/swop_pic.png?itok=bPE7eQUT)
7 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Half. That is the alarmingly high proportion of pregnancies that girls and women do not deliberately choose. The... Read more