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Sharmin Akhter Eti (left), 18, poses for a portrait with her mother, Minu Alam, 36, at their home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Eti is a Peer Educator with the Adolescent Friendly Health Services (AFHS) programme. “Receiving counselling from the programme, my daughter achieved skills needed to tackle issues which hinder her psychological well-being. She even can consult and clear up many confusions and misinformation of mine or many others like me,” says the mother.

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Another visual material from China Youth Alliance of Universal Accessibility Development. It’s a variant font of a Chinese character “Ai”(碍) --- means barriers. It illustrates a figure of fighter who protect an inclusive society (rainbows) from invisable external barriers (wind), including institutionalized stigma and discrimination.

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We need to stop criticizing people who are brave enough to be themselves. All of us aren't meant to be alike.

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