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This free course was written by Pam Foley.

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Extract from: Steven Edwards: UNFPA (2015) ‘10 things you didn’t know about the world’s population’ Available via http://www.unfpa.org/news/10-things-you-didn%E2%80%99t-know-about-world%E2%80%99s-population, https://www.unfpa.org

Rights and choices for all adolescents and youth: a UNFPA global strategy; Danielle Engel, Irem Tümer, Cecile Mazzacurati, Mandira Paul, Satvika Chalasani, Ilya Zhukov, Bente Faugli, José Roberto Luna and Soyoltuya Bayaraa.

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