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LIMA, Peru – For survivors of gender-based violence in Peru’s Ayacucho region, filing a police complaint used to be a daunting experience. On top of dealing with the trauma itself, women — many of whom live in poverty and come from rural and...

 In 2018, UNFPA's Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund (MHTF) moved into Phase III (2018-2022) of its Business Plan based on three cross-cutting principles: improving equity in access, quality of care and accountability, in line with the three...

Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day of the Girl, 11 October Around the world, girls are challenging gender stereotypes and breaking free from the traditional roles that society has dictated for...

Message from Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA  

This week's International Conference on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Crisis Situations will focus on survivors of trauma and conflict like Salwa.

Humanitarian crises produce psychological suffering and trauma that threaten the health and well-being of affected people, and erode global efforts for peacebuilding and recovery. In 2019, nearly 143 million people needed humanitarian aid and...

MAMBOUE, Burkina Faso – Waimbabie Gnoumou is learning to be a better husband, says his wife, Martine. That’s because he is going to a special school that teaches men exactly that. The Husbands and Future Husbands School in Mamboué, a village in...

***THOSE WHO APPLIED NEED NOT RE-APPLY*** The Position: The Chief Technical Adviser (CTA) will coordinate the planning, organization, execution and management of the forthcoming population and housing census in Liberia, and will work under the...

CAIRO, Egypt – Female genital mutilation has been outlawed in Egypt for more than a decade, but it remains widespread. Yet rather than helping to eliminate the practice, public campaigns highlighting its dangers may have had an unexpected side...

UNITED NATIONS, New York – With only six weeks to go until the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25, it's crunch time for all partners to secure firm commitments to realize the promise of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) —...

JUBA/KINSHASA/NEW YORK – Betty* is a survivor. The South Sudanese teenager has risen above a horrific act of violence and reclaimed her life. But her heroic act of recovery should never have been necessary, leaders at the United Nations emphasized...

UNITED NATIONS, New York – Data from 2017 show that approximately 810 women die each day of preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is a roughly 38 per cent decline in the global maternal mortality ratio between 2000 and 2017,...

The practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) has continued to decline around the world, including in high prevalence countries where the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have been implementing...

ITURI PROVINCE, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Several weeks ago, a woman brought her 11-year-old daughter, Anne*, to a UNFPA-supported health facility. Their family had been uprooted by the conflict in Ituri Province and, in the chaos, Anne was...

Statement of UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem to the 2nd Regular Session of the Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS 2019 [as prepared for delivery]. Mr. President,Distinguished Members of the Executive Board,Colleagues and friends,