News

Displaced women in eastern Ethiopia stand up to pressure, stigma over family planning

calendar_today02 August 2019

Trik Dulene (sitting) with friends in the Kologe II displacement camp. She teaches women about family planning. © UNFPA Ethiopia
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News

Women belong at the centre of peace efforts, women UN leaders urge in Afghanistan

calendar_today24 July 2019

Women UN leaders meet with female leaders and advocates in Kabul, Afghanistan. Women's voices must be heard, they emphasized. © Fardin Waezi / UNAMA
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Speech

25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development

calendar_today16 July 2019

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Slideshow

Secretary-General speaks with women and girls in storm-ravaged Mozambique

calendar_today16 July 2019

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Last week, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres visited Mozambique to assess progress and challenges in the wake of cyclones Idai and Kenneth. © UNFPA Mozambique/Natalia da Luz

The devastating cyclones struck just a few weeks apart in March and April. Months later, 46,000 people are still living in camps. © UNFPA Mozambique/Natalia da Luz

Mr. Guterres visited a UNFPA-supported women-friendly space, a safe place where women and girls can receive information and referrals to health and social services. © UNFPA Mozambique/Natalia da Luz

To respect the women-only space, Mr. Guterres placed his chair outside the entrance of the tent. Agueda Nhantumbo, a UNFPA aid worker, explains how risks to women and girls increase in crisis settings. © UNFPA Mozambique/Natalia da Luz

The women-friendly spaces, operated by UNFPA and provincial authorities, also provide supplies for the women to teach each other skills, such as pottery and basket weaving. Here, women teach one another to plait hair. © UNFPA Mozambique/Natalia da Luz

“We just need the tools necessary to go back and make a living,” one woman told the Secretary-General. © UNFPA Mozambique/Natalia da Luz

The storms offer “a clear example of what’s in store for all of us if we don’t act now: more frequent, intense and damaging natural disasters,” Mr. Guterres said. “We need urgent climate action.” © UNFPA Mozambique/Natalia da Luz

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Twenty-five years ago, leaders promised to advance women’s health and rights. Have they delivered?

calendar_today10 July 2019

Twenty-five years ago, 179 governments adopted a visionary Programme of Action that aimed to safeguard the health and rights of women and girls and to promote their empowerment. © UNFPA Morocco
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News

Fighting for girls’ right to say no to child marriage in South Sudan

calendar_today11 June 2019

Poni Helen from South Sudan refused to marry as a child. Today she is studying law. © UNFPA South Sudan/Arlene Alano
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Recommendations of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights & Gender-based Violence

Publisher

UNFPA and Chirapaq

Publication date

2019

Author

UNFPA

Publications

Recommendations of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights & Gender-based Violence

Report on Progress and Challenges

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Statement

JOINT STATEMENT: 1 UN for Family Leave and Childcare

calendar_today31 May 2019

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Publisher

UNFPA

Publication date

2019

Author

UNFPA

Number of pages

52

Annual Report

UNFPA Annual Report 2018

One vision three zeros

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News

A nightmare within a nightmare: Taking on sexual and gender-based violence in humanitarian crises

calendar_today28 May 2019

UNFPA holds sessions raising awareness about gender-based violence, and the availability of support services, in a displacement camp in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen
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