Peer educators at six UNFPA-supported Adolescent and Youth-Friendly (AYF) corners in Simiyu Region have each received a bicycle to make the hard work they do in their communities a little bit easier. Thirty peer educators now have a bicycle – supplied by UNFPA with funding from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) as part of the two-year 'Nilinde Nikulinde Project' – to help them cover the...

6 February, Dar es Salaam: Youth from Tanzania’s regional chapter of AfriYAN – the African Youth and Adolescents Network on Population and Development of Eastern and Southern Africa – and Msichana Initiative’s School Clubs were some of the participants at commemorations for International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) – organized by UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive healt...

Joint statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the occasion of International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. When Tabitha was growing up in rural Kenya, most of her 16-year-old peers were subjected to female genital mutilation –...