News

Award-Winning Programme Gives Ethiopian Girls a Safer Transition to Adulthood

These girls are building brighter futures through the Berhane Hewan programme. The model programme is now being taken over by the regional government. Photo: UNFPA Ethiopia

17 January 2013

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The Executive Director in South Africa: Advocating for the ICPD Agenda

07 December 2012

News

The Executive Director Advocates for Youth and Maternal Health in Benin

While on mission to Benin,  Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin visited a centre for young girls and women supported by UNFPA. Photo:  Nadine Azifan, UNFPA/Benin

14 November 2012

News

African Ministers Pledge to Speed Access to Life-Saving Commodities for All Women and Children

The Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin with the Minister of State for Health Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate and President Goodluck Jonathan visiting UNFPA's booth at the State House.

16 October 2012

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UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities Opens in Abuja

15 October 2012

In the News

Older Tanzanian Women Face Allegations of Witchcraft

An elderly woman works in her banana grove, near Bukoba, Tanzania. Prejudice based on misunderstanding often leads to discrimination and violence against vulnerable women in the country's rural areas.Photograph: Reinhard Marscha/Alamy

03 October 2012

Opinion

Every Woman, Every Child

28 September 2012

News

Expert Ethiopian Fistula Surgeons Train Physicians in Mozambique

Esther Joakim, 25 years old, with her daughter at Beira Central Hospital after her successful fistula repair surgery. Photo: UNFPA Mozambique

07 September 2012

News

Delivering Safely, Even in the Refugee Camps of Uganda

Alice in an ambulance following a safe delivery. Photo: UNFPA Uganda

07 September 2012

News

Senegal and Brazil Forge South-South Cooperation on Census Activities

From left to right: Moustapha Ndour, First Counselor of the Embassy of Senegal in Brazil; Ambassador Fernando Abreu, future Director of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC); Roberto Neves Sant’Anna, IBGE Foreign Affairs Advisor; Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye, Ambassador of Senegal in Brazil; Marco Farani, Director of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC); and Harold Robinson, UNFPA Representative in Brazil and Country Director for Argentina and Paraguay. Photo: Ulisses Lacava/UNFPA

07 August 2012