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Such ideas, that human beings are extra burdens instead of the centers of development prevailed at the Commission. Unheard Voices is a project by Bhavya Gupta in collaboration with Khaana Chahiye Foundation and Parsons New School. Through the discovery of their bodies and sexuality at different stages in their lives, they each reveal a deep desire for closeness and intimacy.

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Those youth delegates all claimed that young people should have full control of their sexuality and have access to contraceptives and family planning services. Documentary Short An intimate portrait showcasing eight women's testimonies about the sexual education they received in the religious Jewish world. Women and girls who are abducted by armed groups are raped and forced into marriage during captivity. There were youth representatives from Nigeria, the Netherlands, and India speaking about their perspectives and advocacy work on increasing youth engagement in sexual reproductive health and rights. Insurgent attacks in the northeast over the past decade have made women and girls targets of gender-based violence, a devastating consequence of the ongoing conflict.

Andrea Gomez Serrano, a Mexican intern at WYA, and I attended together. Unheard Voices From Nigeria An estimated one in three women worldwide will experience violence in her lifetime. Another thing that surprised me were the statements made by a group of young people in a side event called “Sharing Our Voices: Youth& CPD”.

Though I already knew about Anna’s battle at the ICPD conference in Cairo by reading Track A, I was still shocked to hear these statements for myself in the Commission, because they assume that high fertility rates and population growth will necessarily lead to high levels of poverty, and that family planning through contraception is the only way to reduce poverty caused by population growth.

They spoke about the current fertility trends, and their implications to development. The main theme of CPD this year is “Fertility, reproductive health and development.” In the morning, I heard several speakers from the United Nations Population Fund, Bureau of the Commission, and Population Council.