News

Women and girls in Pakistan need urgent health and protection services amid epic flood disaster

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Two girls displaced by torrential monsoon rains and flash flooding in Pakistan sit by the roadside with the remains of their belongings in Khairpur Mirs, Sindh province. Among those affected by the emergency are nearly 130,000 pregnant women in need of urgent health services – more than 42,000 of whom are due to give birth in the next three months. © UNFPA Pakistan/Kashif Ahmed Memon
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News

In Lao PDR, midwives provide life-saving and culturally competent care to the country’s ethnic communities

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Ms. Jepeu at her office with colleagues and patients. © UNFPA Lao PDR
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Publisher

Office of the UN Secretary General

Publication date

Jul 2022

Resources

Intensifying efforts to end obstetric fistula within a decade: Report of the Secretary-General (A/77/229)

The UN Secretary-2022 General's report brings to the General Assembly's attention existing and new challenges to ending obstetric fistula within a decade, including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which have exacerbated the root causes of this devastating childbirth injury. The report outlines efforts made at the global, regional, and national levels and makes recommendations to intensify these efforts to end fistula by 2030, using human rights-based and gender transformative approaches.

Events

World Sexual Health Day 2022

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Updates

UNFPA and UNDP join forces to support dignity for women and girls in northern Ethiopia

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UNFPA and UNDP distribute dignity kits to women and girls at Sabacare 4, an internally displaced persons camp on the outskirts of Mekelle, Tigray. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Paula Seijo
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Events

Claiming bodily autonomy to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights

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News

Midwives in Afghanistan defy constraints and crises to save lives of women and newborns

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Midwife Minaz Bibi provides midwifery services for women affected by the earthquake in the Gayan district of Paktika, Afghanistan, in June 2022. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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News

Sri Lanka’s once robust health system nears collapse amid crisis – and pregnant women pay the price

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Some 215,000 women are currently pregnant in Sri Lanka and 145,000 will give birth in the next six months. File image from 2019. © UNFPA Sri Lanka/Ruvin De Silva
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News

In Costa Rica, indigenous youth leaders are blazing a trail toward a better future for women and girls

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In her daughter, Ms. Gallardo sees the future. © UNFPA Costa Rica/Gabriela Rodríguez
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Statement

Statement of the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) Action Coalition on Bodily Autonomy and SRHR on the Overturn of Roe v. Wade

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