- 10 December 2021 - 10 December 2021
- Global
Human Rights Day 2021
We don’t require a formal declaration that establishes all individuals have equal dignity and worth because it should be as innate as it is incontrovertible. Among the universal human rights listed in the document are life, liberty and security; equality before the law; freedom from persecution; equal rights to marriage and family; equal pay for equal work; an adequate standard of living supporting health and well-being in mind; and education.
Read story- 03 December 2021 - 03 December 2021
- Global
International Day of Persons With Disabilities 2021
A June survey from online publication Disability Horizons and disability rights organization Leonard Cheshire reported that 14 per cent of people with disabilities experienced online hate crime. And along with disability rights organization United Response, Leonard Cheshire also said online abuse of people with disabilities in England and Wales spiked 52 per cent under lockdown.
Read story- 01 December 2021 - 02 December 2021
- Sofia, Bulgaria
Ministerial Conference on Demographic Resilience: Pathways for Societies to Thrive in a World of Rapid Demographic Change
The hybrid online/in-person Ministerial Conference on Demographic Resilience aims to contribute to strengthening the capacity of countries in Europe and Central Asia to respond to the profound demographic shifts the region is experiencing.
Read story- 01 December 2021 - 01 December 2021
- Global
World AIDS Day 2021
The first part of the theme for this year’s World AIDS Day – “End inequalities. End AIDS. End pandemics” – could address a host of the world’s ills.
The world has seen the ways inequality has played out during the COVID-19 pandemic: who contracts the disease, who has access to vaccines and medical care and testing, who can’t work for home or who loses their job because of the pandemic’s effects on the economy, who has an underlying condition that makes them more vulnerable to the coronavirus – the list goes on.
- 25 November 2021 - 25 November 2021
- Global
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 2021
We know that among the brutal consequences of the pandemic is the upsurge of gender-based violence – lockdowns trapped women indoors with their abusers. Those same lockdowns caused spikes in online use, and with it digital violence. It takes on many nefarious forms: non-consensual sharing of intimate images, cyberstalking, online trafficking, sexual harassment and exploitation, hate speech and doxxing (unauthorized publishing of personal information such as addresses and telephone numbers).
Read story- 25 November 2021 - 10 December 2021
- Global
UNFPA 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence: GBV Disruptor Conversations 2021
Read story- 15 November 2021 - 15 November 2021
- Global
Second Anniversary of Nairobi Summit on ICPD25
In 1994, the landmark International Conference on Population and Development fundamentally changed the way we look at our societies. It put people, rights and choices at the centre of sustainable development. In 2019, people from 172 countries met at the landmark Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 to accelerate progress on these promises.
Read story- 24 October 2021 - 24 October 2021
- Global
UN Day
The events over the past year have shown that the world’s nations must act together as our future is a shared one. What happens in one country is not limited to within its borders.
Read story- 11 October 2021 - 11 October 2021
- Global
International Day of the Girl Child 2021
In 2011, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution adopting 11 October as the International Day of the Girl Child, recognizing girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls around the world face realizing them.
UNFPA works to protect the health and rights of adolescent girls through access to sexual and reproductive health counselling, information and services; comprehensive sexuality education; and through encouraging girls' empowerment and participation in the decisions that most affect them. UNFPA also works with boys and men to advance gender equality, and to encourage the abandonment of harmful practices and stereotypes.