News

Engaging communities in Malawi to end child marriage and help girls finish school

calendar_today31 October 2022

Village headman Patete is committed to ending child marriage in his community and was inspired by training he attended under the European Union-funded Spotlight Initiative. © UNFPA/Luis Tato
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News

Health and violence risks multiply for women and girls in Kenya as worst drought in 40 years takes hold

calendar_today17 October 2022

Women attend a UNFPA-supported integrated community health outreach session on prevention and response to gender-based violence. Lokapararai village, Turkana county, Kenya. © UNFPA Kenya
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News

Under increasing conflict and climate crises, young people’s mental health bears a heavy burden

calendar_today10 October 2022

Malina, 12, from Odesa in Ukraine, reads a story to her new friends at a UNFPA-supported youth safe space at a refugee accommodation centre in Chișinău, the capital of the Republic of Moldova. The safe space is one of 20 across the country, which offer counselling and psychosocial services as well as educational support for young refugees and host populations. © UNFPA Moldova
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Events

Launch of the 2022 report by the High-Level Commission on the occasion of the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 third anniversary

calendar_today10 November 2022

location_onZanzibar, Tanzania / YouTube Live

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Statement

Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day of the Girl 2022

calendar_today10 October 2022

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News

Forced into early motherhood, a child rape survivor in the Comoros fights stigma to finish school

calendar_today26 September 2022

Mariama was raped at a neighbour’s home when she was just 13 years old and forced into early motherhood. The Comoros already has high rates of gender-based violence, but many more women and girls don’t report being assaulted or abused for fear of social stigma, discrimination and even financial destitution. © UNFPA Comoros/Melvis Kimbi
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News

“Giving up is not an option”: Hope for Afghans forced out of school

calendar_today13 September 2022

Mursal, 17, would normally be in the 12th grade. She dreams of becoming a doctor, but her education has been indefinitely postponed. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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News

Coming together to change social norms and stand against female genital mutilation in Ethiopia

calendar_today09 September 2022

19-year-old Bereket Merihun is in seventh grade at a school in the Alata Chuko district in the Sidama region, Ethiopia. © Norwegian Church Aid
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Video

Girls in Afghanistan want to go back to school

calendar_today13 September 2022

Girls in Afghanistan want to go back to school

Girls in Afghanistan want to go back to school

One year after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, 17-year-old Mursal is still in disbelief that she can’t go back to school.

“It’s not right that they’re ordering us to hide our faces and stop going to school. I hope that young girls will not give up,” she says.

See how Mursal is giving back to her community with UNFPA’s help.

News

‘Dream and fight’: Afrodescendant nurse lifts up marginalized women in Costa Rica

calendar_today29 August 2022

Sianne Palmer Miller is a nurse of obstetrics and gynaecology working to support the health and rights of marginalized women, including indigenous women and those of African descent. © UNFPA/Gabriela Rodríguez, Juan Manuel Fernández
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