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UNFPA, Organon and MIT Solve announce the 14 winners of the 4HerPower Challenge
08 January 2024
New York, 8 January 2024 - UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, Organon, a global healthcare company focused on women's health, and MIT Solve, an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are pleased to announce the 14 winners of the 4HerPower Challenge: Innovating for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
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The UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency launches US $1.2 billion humanitarian appeal as crises devastate women and girls’ health and rights
12 December 2023
New York, 12 December 2023 – UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has issued a pressing call for US$1.2 billion to address the mounting crises affecting women and girls globally in 2024. The agency aims to provide reproductive health and other services to protect and save the lives of 48 million of the world’s most vulnerable people in 58 countries in 2024.
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The global climate crisis is putting women and girls in extreme danger, UNFPA warns in new data
27 November 2023
New York, 27 November 2023 – The global climate emergency threatens any chance of women and girls achieving gender equality in the countries most vulnerable to climate change, according to new data from UNFPA, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency.
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Climate change is an urgent threat to pregnant women and children
21 November 2023
GENEVA/NEW YORK, 21 November 2023 --- Pregnant women, babies and children face extreme health risks from climate catastrophes that warrant urgent attention, according to a Call for Action released today by United Nations (UN) agencies ahead of the global Conference of the Parties (COP28) negotiations on climate change in Dubai.
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UNFPA report finds sexual and reproductive health of women and girls missing from most national climate plans
10 October 2023
New York, 10 October 2023 – Women and girls are among the hardest hit by the climate emergency, but fewer than one third of countries that have published their climate plans have committed to upholding the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls, according to new findings by UNFPA, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency.
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The High-Level Commission on the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 Follow-up issues its final call for unity and justice in achieving sexual and reproductive rights
22 September 2023
NEW YORK, 22 September 2023 – The High-Level Commission on the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 Follow-up (HLC) concluded its work today by launching a report championing a universal, unifying call for sexual and reproductive justice.
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Governments and philanthropies commit to increase investments to end the funding shortfall for lifesaving family planning supplies
19 September 2023
As world leaders gather in New York for the annual UN General Assembly, a wave of new financial commitments for UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, and the GFF, the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents, a partnership hosted at the World Bank, is a major step in backing country-owned progress to transform the financing landscape for family planning.
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UNFPA Introduces Equity 2030 Alliance: Leading the way in gender-inclusive research & design for a more equitable future
19 September 2023
NEW YORK, 20 September 2023 – UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has launched the Equity 2030 Alliance, a pioneering global initiative to achieve gender equity in science, technology and financing by 2030.
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UNFPA announces winners of the AccessAbility innovation challenge
21 August 2023
New York, 21 August 2023 - UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is pleased to announce the winners of the first of its kind AccessAbility innovation challenge, a competition to provide funding for social enterprises with innovative solutions that disrupt inequalities and empower young people with disabilities.
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UNFPA and UNICEF welcome CA$ 35 million contribution from the Government of Canada to end child marriage
20 July 2023
20 July 2023, Kigali (Rwanda) – UNICEF and UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, welcome the commitment of CA$35 million by the Government of Canada to support the third phase of the Global Programme to End Child Marriage until 2030.
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Deadly outcomes: Pregnant Afrodescendent women are abused and neglected due to systemic racism and sexism in health systems across the Americas, new UNFPA report finds
12 July 2023
New York, 12 July 2023 - Afrodescendent women and girls across the Americas are more likely to die during childbirth, a fact often attributed to their individual failure to seek timely treatment, poor lifestyle choices or hereditary predispositions. New analysis by UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, categorically refutes these misconceptions, finding a systemic and historical pattern of racist abuse in the health sector across the continents.
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H.E. Mrs. Angeline Ndayishimiye, First Lady of Burundi, and the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) receive the 2023 United Nations Population Award
12 July 2023
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 12 July 2023 – The laureates of the 2023 United Nations Population Award are H.E. Mrs. Angeline Ndayishimiye, the First Lady of Burundi, in the individual category and the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) in the institutional category.
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