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Without speedy progress on gender equality and real action to end pervasive discrimination against women and girls, the global community will not be able to keep the promise to ‘leave no one behind’ on the road to ending poverty, protecting the planet and advancing prosperity by 2030, according to a new United Nations report launched on 14 February 2018.
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Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank | Community meeting. Aurangabad, India ” Photo from UN News Centre
In this century, child marriage cannot be allowed to happen, and similarly, children should not give birth to children, the United Nations youth envoy on 14 February 2018told an African forum on reproductive health and rights.
Lindsay Barnes/UNFPA | Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Youth at the Opening Ceremony of the 8th Africa Conference on Sexual And Reproductive Health and Rights, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
“There are high levels of adolescent pregnancy virtually everywhere in the continent. Africa has the highest levels of teenage pregnancy in the world. The larger part of them occur within marriage,” said Jayathma Wickramanayake, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Youth.
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