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Urgent funding needed to protect health and safety of women and girls in Yemen amidst COVID-19
06 May 2020
More than 48,000 women could die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth in Yemen, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, due to severe funding shortages and the possible closure of reproductive health facilities, amidst rising risks posed by COVID-19. To save lives, UNFPA is calling for urgent funding of $59 million to provide lifesaving reproductive healthcare and women’s protection services until the end of 2020. An additional $24 million is needed for the COVID-19 response to protect health workers and women and girls accessing reproductive health services in the conflict-affected country.
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UNFPA study shows limits on women’s reproductive decision-making worldwide - one quarter of women cannot refuse sex
01 April 2020
NEW YORK, USA - Approximately a quarter of women cannot refuse sex or make their own decisions about accessing proper health care, a major international study has found. UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, today released groundbreaking new research revealing how far the world has come in allowing women and girls to make informed decisions about their reproductive rights.
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UNFPA sounds the alarm on dire situation facing women and girls in Syria, as conflict enters its 10th year
16 March 2020
UNFPA expresses increasing concern about the women and girls trapped in the escalating humanitarian situation in Syria, especially in the north-west, as the conflict enters its 10th year.
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UNFPA launches humanitarian aid appeal to urgently reach 48 million women and youth
06 February 2020
UNFPA needs $683 million to urgently provide life-saving reproductive health and protection services in 57 conflict-affected countries.
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New partnership between UNFPA, Center for Women’s Global Leadership aims to end gender-based violence
19 December 2019
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) from Rutgers University to work towards eliminating all forms of gender-based violence. The agreement will support the organizations’ goals of achieving sexual and reproductive health for all, promoting gender equality and protecting human rights.
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Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 ends with a clear path forward to transform the world for women and girls
14 November 2019
The Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 concluded today in the Kenyan capital, with partners making bold commitments to transform the world by ending all maternal deaths, unmet need for family planning and gender-based violence and harmful practices against women and girls by 2030.
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New study shows ending maternal deaths, gender-based violence and unmet family planning needs is affordable, within reach
12 November 2019
The price tag to achieve three world-transforming results in the next decade – ending preventable maternal deaths, eliminating gender-based violence and harmful practices, and meeting the family planning needs of women in high-priority countries – is $264 billion, according to new research made public today at the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25.
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Private sector partners commit billions to help advance ICPD agenda
12 November 2019
Private sector organizations including the Ford Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Philips, World Vision and many others announced today at the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 they will mobilize some $8 billion in combined new pledges to achieve zero preventable maternal deaths, zero unmet need for family planning, and zero gender-based violence and harmful practices by 2030.
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Major commitments made by governments, civil society, private sector on opening day of landmark sexual and reproductive health summit
12 November 2019
Nairobi, 12 November 2019 – World leaders, representatives of non-governmental organizations, young people, business leaders and community groups today began unveiling their commitments to end preventable maternal death, meet all women’s demand for family planning, and stop violence against women and girls by 2030.
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World leaders, civil society and private sector gathering in Nairobi to commit to actions for ending maternal death, meeting demand for family planning and stopping gender-based violence by 2030
11 November 2019
Actions to save mothers’ lives, meet the global demand for contraception and stop violence against women and girls by 2030 are the focus of a three-day global summit that begins here tomorrow.
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One million Yemeni women at risk due to lack of funding says UNFPA
29 August 2019
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, echoes the urgent call by UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Lise Grande for donors to provide the funding promised earlier this year.
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Liberian women’s organization, Gambian minister, selected as 2019 UN Population Award laureates
28 May 2019
UNITED NATIONS, New York - The National Peace Hut Women of Liberia was announced as the institutional laureate of the 2019 United Nations Population Award. Mamadou Tangara, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, was announced as the award’s individual laureate.
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