- 05 June 2023 - 09 June 2023
- New York
Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS: Annual session 2023
“This is no time to step back,” UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem said last year at the annual session of the Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS, describing how conflict, climate crises and COVID-19 had hindered progress for women and girls. “Instead, it’s a time to forge ahead.”
Read story- 28 May 2023 - 28 May 2023
- Global
Menstrual Hygiene Day
Menstrual health is a human rights issue – not just a health one. Each of us has a right to bodily autonomy. The ability to care for your body while menstruating is an essential part of this fundamental freedom. Yet an estimated 500 million people lack access to menstrual products and adequate facilities for menstrual health.
Read story- 23 May 2023 - 23 May 2023
- Global
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
It is one of the most serious and tragic childbirth injuries. And it is almost entirely preventable.
Read story- 17 May 2023 - 17 May 2023
- Global
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
Hard-won advances for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities are increasingly under threat. Discriminatory laws, norms and practices are denying LGBTQIA+ people their autonomy, their access to health care, their reproductive rights and choices.
Read story- 07 May 2023 - 11 May 2023
- Cape Town, South Africa
Fifth Global Midwifery Symposium
The fifth Global Midwifery Symposium will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, drawing attention to the essential role midwives play in ensuring healthy pregnancies and safe births as well as in ending preventable maternal and newborn deaths and disabilities.
Read story- 10 April 2023 - 14 April 2023
- UN Web TV
Commission on Population and Development, 56th session
In a world grappling with upheaval and uncertainty, every crisis has a decidedly female face, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem said while addressing the Commission on Population and Development last year. “The face of a woman haunted by the shadow pandemic of gender-based violence or conflict, or often by both. The face of a girl married or mutilated against her will, pregnant before her body is ready, as barriers are thrown up to protective sexual and reproductive health services. The face of a girl kept out of school due to pandemic disruptions, and further excluded from learning by poverty and the digital divide.”
Read story- 07 April 2023 - 07 April 2023
- Global
World Health Day 2023
The World Health Organization celebrates its 75th anniversary this year – an ideal time to look back at the public health successes of the past seven decades, and to look ahead to the challenges of tomorrow.
Read story- 25 March 2023 - 25 March 2023
- Global
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 2023
The enslavement of Africans during the Transatlantic Slave Trade tore millions of people away from their families, deprived them of their human rights and left trauma spanning generations. The racist legacy reverberates today in harmful prejudices and beliefs that continue to impact people of African descent across the world.
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