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Rallying men and boys in the fight against female genital mutilation

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Professor Akotionga performed the first operation in Burkina Faso to repair physical damage from female genital mutilation. Since then, he has trained more than 600 midwives, nurses and gynaecologists in the procedure. © UNFPA/Lambert Coleman
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Events

International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation 2023

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#MenEndFGM: Partnering with Men and Boys to Transform Social Norms to End Female Genital Mutilation

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UNFPA

Publication date

Dec 2022

Number of pages

11

Publication

My Body, My Life, My World Operational Guidance: Introduction

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Canada

Donor rankings include UN-to-UN transfers, which are UNFPA's top source of revenue overall.

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Effective 1 January 2022, UNFPA adopted a new revenue recognition policy; however, for the purposes of this website, information is presented based on previous policy to allow comparability of information across different years.

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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau – Until last month, when a woman needed an emergency Caesarean section on the island of Bubaque, in Guinea-Bissau, she had to take a five-hour boat ride to the capital city. And the boat ran only…
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SANLIURFA, Türkiye – Refugee women and girls face extraordinary hardships. They endure grave risks and often brutal violence, and many are thrust into poverty. But they can also face another, more intimate, hardship,…
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RAKHINE, Myanmar – Harlee Dar, 14, does not go to school. There are no books, TV or radio in the family’s small shelter, which is sweltering in the summer and rain-beaten during monsoon season. Asked what she does when…
31 July 2018 Read Story

Updates

France commits 1.5 million dollars to UNFPA to empower survivors of gender-based violence in Iraq

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The new agreement with France will allow UNFPA to create three women protection centres for women survivors of violence in Iraq and support one women's shelter. © UNFPA Iraq
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In Sudan, a UNFPA hospital helps women give birth safely despite flooding crisis

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Health workers at the UNFPA Tunaydbah field hospital in Sudan’s eastern Gedaraf state provide critical maternal health care amid floods, conflict and an ongoing refugee crisis. © UNFPA Sudan
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Publisher

BRAC and UNFPA

Publication date

2023

Number of pages

12

Publication

Adolescent Empowerment at Scale: Successes and challenges of an evidence-based approach to young women’s programming in Africa

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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Donor rankings include UN-to-UN transfers, which are UNFPA's top source of revenue overall.

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Effective 1 January 2022, UNFPA adopted a new revenue recognition policy; however, for the purposes of this website, information is presented based on previous policy to allow comparability of information across different years.

2024 | Top
Donor Global Statistics

News & Updates

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RAKHINE, Myanmar – Harlee Dar, 14, does not go to school. There are no books, TV or radio in the family’s small shelter, which is sweltering in the summer and rain-beaten during monsoon season. Asked what she does when…
31 July 2018 Read Story
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SANLIURFA, Türkiye – “Even today, we saw a 17 year old who is pregnant and already has a child,” said midwife Neval, sitting in the Devtesti Centre, a women’s and girls’ safe space in Sanliurfa, Türkiye.  Some 475,…
26 July 2018 Read Story
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HERAT, Afghanistan – By midnight, Khurshid, 35, was in serious trouble. Five months pregnant and bleeding heavily, she had passed out at home. Her family carried her unconscious body to the nearest – and only – health…
10 July 2018 Read Story

Publisher

WHO

Publication date

Jan 2023

Author

UNFPA Supply Chain Management Unit

Resources

WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations - TRS 1044

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