News

Across Afghanistan, resourceful midwives brave multiple barriers to ensure maternal health and safe births

Midwife Durdana Samandar says Ms. Husun could have experienced serious complications had she insisted on walking four hours to go back home to deliver her baby. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ehsanullah Popal
  • 15 August 2023
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News

“Psychological wounds will take time to heal”: Treating immense trauma in Derna in the aftermath of Storm Daniel

Two destroyed dams unleashed a wall of water on Derna, Libya, in the early hours of 11 September, wiping out entire neighbourhoods. © UNFPA Libya / Ahmad Algeriany
  • 05 October 2023
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News

Defying conflict and child marriage to champion girls’ education and rights in Ethiopia

The UNFPA-supported safe house in Ethiopia’s Benishangul Gumuz region is a sanctuary for up to 100 survivors of gender-based violence. The centre offers counselling, medical care and training courses, as well as a safe space to take refuge. © UNFPA/Fasil Zenebe/Mopix
  • 02 October 2023
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International Day of the Girl Child 2023

11 October 2023

Global

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Resources

Hormone-releasing Intrauterine Device (IUD) procured by UNFPA

Resource date: Oct 2023

Author: UNFPA Supply Chain Management Unit

Learn about the Hormone-releasing Intrauterine Device (IUD) procured by UNFPA. The hormonal IUD is a contraceptive inserted into the uterus by a trained medical health professional, it releases levonorgestrel which stops the sperm from reaching the egg. 
 

19th Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture

15 November 2023

New York

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Stopping violence against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Published on: 02/10/2023

*Pierette almost died after being raped by two bandits while she was fetching wood in the forest.

See her story and how UNFPA came to her aid.

*Name changed for protection

Publication

2022 Global Symposium on Technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence Results: Building a Common Pathway

Number of pages: 44

Publication date: 01 Oct 2023

Publisher: UNFPA and Wilson Center

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Evaluation du 8ème programme de pays, l’UNFPA Senegal (2019-2023)

Evaluation du 8ème programme de pays, l’UNFPA Senegal (2019-2023)

2022

Country

West & Central Africa

Senegal

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Les objectifs de la présente évaluation sont les suivants informer les parties prenantes sur leurs performances en matière de résultats de développement et d'investissement des ressources, soutenir la prise de décision fondée sur des données probantes, tirer des enseignements précieux en élargissant la base de connaissances existantes pour accélérer la mise en œuvre du programme d'action de la CIPD de 1994.

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