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UNFPA Appeals to World Community for Women, Young People
21 July 2017
UNITED NATIONS, New York—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is appealing for $308 million to deliver life-saving work in 2017 to support about 38 million people, including more than 5.6 million pregnant women across 56 countries in conflict or natural disasters. The funds will provide life-saving sexual and reproductive health services, as well as programmes to address gender-based violence in countries such as Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen.
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Global Leaders Commit Support for UNFPA at London Family Planning Summit
13 July 2017
LONDON – On World Population Day, 11 July, international donors at the landmark Family Planning Summit in London committed a total of $207 million to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. The new funding will help support UNFPA’s work in more than 150 countries and territories to expand access to voluntary family planning commodities and services and strengthen national health systems.
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Nutrition International and UNFPA partner to improve women and adolescent girls’ health
11 July 2017
London, United Kingdom, 11 July 2017― Nutrition International and UNFPA, the United Nations Populations Fund, announced today at the Family Planning Summit 2020 in London, a partnership to provide…
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UNFPA mourns passing of Executive Director
05 June 2017
With profound sadness UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, announces that its Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, passed away suddenly at his home last night. He was 68 years old. “This is a devastating loss for UNFPA and for the people, especially women, girls and youth, he dedicated his life to serving, starting from when he became a doctor in Nigeria. UNFPA expresses its deep sympathy to his family and prays that they have the fortitude to bear this great loss.”
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Investments in male condoms save lives, make economic gains for countries
17 May 2017
UNITED NATIONS, New York - Increasing investments in procuring and distributing male condoms provides a significant economic returns for countries with scarce resources, a new study finds. The study…
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New Gender Resource Advances Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
09 May 2017
UNITED NATIONS, New York—EngenderHealth and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, announced the publication of a new digital resource: Engaging men in sexual and reproductive health and rights, including family planning: Why Using A Gender Lens Matters. The resource will help programme managers design, implement, and evaluate programmes that engage men as clients, as supportive partners, and as champions for gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
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UNFPA on Standby to Provide Psychosocial Support, Reproductive Health Care to Just-Freed Chibok Girls
08 May 2017
UNITED NATIONS, New York/Abuja—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, welcomes the release of an additional 82 Chibok girls who were abducted by the Boko Haram group, and is on standby to provide emergency reproductive health care, psychosocial counselling and other critical support to the survivors.
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UNFPA Wins Webby
25 April 2017
UNITED NATIONS, New York - UNFPA has won the Webby Award and the Webby People's Voice Award in the category of Best Use of Photography for the web feature, "16 Girls, 16 Stories of Resistance". The…
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The Lancet: Investing in adolescent health, education could bring tenfold economic benefit
19 April 2017
Improving the physical, sexual and mental health of adolescents aged 10-19 years, at the cost of about $4.60 per person per year, could bring a tenfold economic benefit by averting more than 12 million adolescent deaths and preventing more than 30 million unwanted pregnancies in adolescents. Similarly, programmes to reduce child marriage, at about $3.80 per person, can bring an almost sixfold return on investment and cut child marriage by around a third. These findings, amongst others, are published in The Lancet on the eve of the World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington D.C., where finance and development leaders from 188 countries will discuss the critical need to invest in adolescents.
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Sweden’s Hans Rosling, Niger NGO Win 2017 UN Population Award
12 April 2017
Hans Rosling, a Swedish doctor and statistician, as well as the Association of Traditional Chiefs of Niger (Association des chefs traditionnels du Niger, ACTN), a community-based development organization, have won the 2017 United Nations Population Award. Established by the General Assembly in 1981, the award recognizes outstanding achievements in population and health.
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UNFPA Recognized by the 21st Annual Webby Awards
07 April 2017
UNITED NATIONS, New York — The global website of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has just been announced as the recipient of multiple honours presented by the 21st Annual Webby Awards.…
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Joint UNICEF, UNFPA, UN Women and UNDP Statement on Türkiye's Draft Bill on Sexual Abuse against Children
21 November 2016
Ankara, 21 November 2016 - UNICEF, UNFPA, UN Women and UNDP in Türkiye are deeply concerned by the draft Bill submitted to the Parliament during the legislative debates on November 17 which may lead to some type of amnesty for child abuse perpetrators on the condition that the perpetrator marries the victim.
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