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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Family Planning and Ending Gender-based Violence, Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage: Pandemic threatens achievement of the Transformative Results committed to by UNFPA (2020). 4 UN Women, From Insights to Action: Gender equality in the wake of COVID-19 (New York, 2020). 5 UN Women. Data Bites.
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