dim., 19 mai 2013 11:08:00 +0000 dim., 19 mai 2013 11:08:00 +0000 http://www.unfpa.org UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. UNFPA – because everyone counts. en-us serrano@unfpa.org (Alvaro Serrano) gruber@unfpa.org (Kimberly Gruber) http://www.unfpa.org/images/unfpalogoxs.gif http://www.unfpa.org 80 36 The world's largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health programmes http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/14027;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 CHITIXL, Guatemala --- "In my village girls do not have access to information nor education," said Sonia Delfina Cho Tún from the Chitixl community in the lush northern highlands of the country. "There isn´t a local high school. We only get to study to sixth grade. Mostly girls marry at age 15, not knowing what their future holds for them and their children. "Parents force them because they say that when they reach age 20 and are single, they can no longer find a husband and are left to grow old alone." http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/14024;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 In this Opinion piece, published by CNN, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin talks about the important role men can and must play in lifting the obstacles that prevent women from access voluntary family planning, one of the most cost-effective ways of improving health. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13965;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 SUVA, Fiji — If alarming rates of violence against women are to be effectively addressed, the status of women needs to be elevated.  UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin emphasized the fundamental, often unacknowledged, contributions of women – to families, communities and economies – during the launch of the Pacific Regional ICPD Review report. The persistence of alarming rates of gender-based violence is one of the critical issues in the region. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/14019;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 NIZIP, Turkey — More has to be done to ensure the health and wellbeing of women and children affected by the Syrian conflict, said Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UNFPA, on a recent visit to Turkey's Nizip refugee camp, about 40km east of the southern city of Gaziantep. One of Turkey's newest camps, Nizip houses some 10,000 refugees, or "guests" as the government prefers to call them, in white canvas tents and containers arrayed in neat numbered rows along the rocky, sun-bleached banks of the Euphrates. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13966;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 ZA'ATARI, Jordan — In a tent hospital bed, a Syrian woman who was four months pregnant when she fled her country's civil war cradles one of the newest residents of this dust-swept refugee camp: Her newborn son, just delivered by Caesarean. Around a dozen babies are born every day in Za'atari camp, which is home to 120,000 Syrians and counting – and there's only one, overworked Moroccan doctor performing C-sections. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13903;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 On this International Day of the Midwife, UNFPA and the International Confederation of Midwives, celebrate the work of midwives in contributing to the miracle of birth—and for the myriad other things they do every day to contribute to the wellbeing of mothers and children around the world. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13899;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 Chidbirth is perhaps the riskiest and most miraculous time in a woman's life. And midwives are truly the unsung heroines of the challenge to reduce the risks women face in bringing forth life. Now, armed with better skills and training, midwives are increasingly able to deal with life-threatening emergencies and are playing a critical role in making motherhood safer around the world. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13696;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 BANGUI, Central African Republic — Fierce fighting between rebel troops and Central African armed forces beginning in March has left widespread insecurity in the country. Cases of collective sexual violence and massive looting of public offices, housing and health facilities were reported, resulting in a massive internal displacement of populations and a drastic shortage of essential medicines, medical equipment and supplies in health centres meant to welcome and provide care to many victims of this crisis. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13694;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 UNITED NATIONS, New York—An academic institution affiliated with the Al-Azhar University in Egypt and a public health advocate from Uganda were announced yesterday as winners of the 2013 United Nations Population Award. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13697;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 UNITED NATIONS, New York — In an increasingly interconnected world, more individuals than ever before are leaving their homes to begin a new life somewhere else. Since 1990 the number of migrants has increased from 155 million to around 214 million, with women making up an increasing proportion of that total. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13896;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 In this Opinion piece, published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation , UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin calls attention to the violation of the human rights of adolescent girls due to the persistence of child marriage and other harmful practices. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13891;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin delivers opening remarks on the forty-sixth session of the Commission on Population and Development. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13683;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 YANGON — The Myanmar Government with support from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, undertook a pilot census exercise from 30 March to 10 April to prepare for a nationwide census in 2014, the country's first in 30 years. One hundred schoolteachers trained to be enumerators visited thousands of homes and questioned residents in selected villages in 20 townships across the country representing a cross-section of Myanmar's diverse geographic and ethnic mix. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13897;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp houses more than 100,000 Syrians who have fled the civil war; 3,000 of those registered are pregnant women. Against the odds, women are adapting to the cycle of life. http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13886;jsessionid=A7CF05002B8F24317E84D4F5DC989AB6.jahia02 ZA'ATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — A city that’s not a city, Jordan’s Zaatari camp sits just across the border and houses more than 100,000 Syrians. Located in desert terrain, the ground is so white and dusty it almost looks as though it is snowing.