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Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000-2020

Estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA/Population Division

Number of pages: 108

Publication date: 01 Feb 2023

Publisher: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA/Population Division

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Gender Transformative Approaches to Achieve Gender Equality and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Number of pages: 43

Publication date: 08 Mar 2023

Publisher: UNFPA

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  • A neglected global crisis for women: Nearly 300,000 mothers died in 2020 from preventable causes

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A neglected global crisis for women: Nearly 300,000 mothers died in 2020 from preventable causes

Newly graduated midwife Sakila Chaulagian in 2020. © UNFPA Nepal
  • 23 February 2023
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  • A year on from Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine, tackling the onslaught on health and rights for generations of women and girls

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A year on from Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine, tackling the onslaught on health and rights for generations of women and girls

Psychologist Victoria Semko works with a UNFPA psychosocial mobile team. She said, "When I first came back to Irpin, it was scary. There were shot-out cars and burnt tanks on the streets. The city was emptied. Absolutely everything was different.” © UNFPA Ukraine/Roman Buchko
  • 24 February 2023
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A woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth: UN agencies

23 February 2023

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UNFPA Gender Strategy (2022-2025)

Agency, Choice and Access: UNFPA Strategy for Promoting Gender Equality and the Rights of Women and Adolescent Girls

Number of pages: 43

Publication date: 17 Feb 2023

Publisher: UNFPA

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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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After eight years of conflict and despite a fragile truce, childbirth still a matter of life and death in Yemen
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After eight years of conflict and despite a fragile truce, childbirth still a matter of life…
DHAMAR, Yemen – “If we get some food, we first let our children eat.” Zahra, 30, is a mother of four from the village of Wusab Al Safil in Yemen’s Dhamar Governorate. Eight years ago, as the war escalated dramatically…
31 March 2023 Read Story
Countering female genital mutilation in Sudan: “I didn’t know it was possible not to cut my daughter”
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Countering female genital mutilation in Sudan: “I didn’t know it was possible not to cut my…
KHARTOUM, Sudan – “I personally experienced female genital mutilation and its harmful effects. I will not allow my daughters to be exposed to this,” said Zuha from White Nile state, in southern Sudan. Zuha was married…
23 March 2023 Read Story
When crisis strikes: Responding to the needs and rights of women and girls
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When crisis strikes: Responding to the needs and rights of women and girls
Exposed to trauma, malnutrition, disease and gender-based violence, mothers and babies in displacement camps often have no access to quality health services. This young mother, Doa’a Ahmad, 24, and her newborn, Ghayyath…
17 March 2023 Read Story
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In Sudan, a UNFPA hospital helps women give birth safely despite flooding crisis

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
  • 17 January 2023
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  • Adolescent Empowerment at Scale: Successes and challenges of an evidence-based approach to young women’s programming in Africa

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

Number of pages: 12

Publication date: 01 Feb 2023

Publisher: BRAC and UNFPA

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

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When crisis strikes: Responding to the needs and rights of women and girls
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When crisis strikes: Responding to the needs and rights of women and girls
Exposed to trauma, malnutrition, disease and gender-based violence, mothers and babies in displacement camps often have no access to quality health services. This young mother, Doa’a Ahmad, 24, and her newborn, Ghayyath…
17 March 2023 Read Story
UNFPA midwives on call to ensure safe births in Afghanistan’s most remote villages
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UNFPA midwives on call to ensure safe births in Afghanistan’s most remote villages
NIMROZ, Afghanistan – “Wake up! We have a delivery!” Suhila Rasuli whispered urgently the phone so as not to wake up the rest of her family so early in the morning. The call had come from the Qala-e-Naw village. “A…
16 March 2023 Read Story
Violence plagues women and girls amid Yemen’s relentless conflict
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Violence plagues women and girls amid Yemen’s relentless conflict
UNITED NATIONS/SANA’A – Rehman* was married off to an abusive man at age 15. “During our year of marriage, I lived a very hard life full of violence and abuse,” she recently told UNFPA in the governorate of Hajjah.…
28 February 2023 Read Story
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