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  • 11 Jul 2024
  • Statement

Joint statement by UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS and UN Women calling for sexual and reproductive health and rights for all

In April, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, governments renewed their commitment and determination to accelerate the implementation of the Programme of Action of the 1994 International…

Joint statement by UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS and UN Women calling for sexual…

In April, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, governments renewed their commitment and determination to accelerate…

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  • 11 Jul 2024
  • Press Release

H.E. Dr. Haifa Abu Ghazaleh of Jordan, and the National Alliance to End Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage in Ethiopia receive the 2024 United Nations Population Award

UNITED NATIONS, New York, 11 July 2024 – The laureates of the 2024 United Nations Population Award are H.E. Dr. Haifa Abu Ghazaleh, in the individual category and the National Alliance to End Female…

H.E. Dr. Haifa Abu Ghazaleh of Jordan, and the National Alliance to End Female…

UNITED NATIONS, New York, 11 July 2024 – The laureates of the 2024 United Nations Population Award are H.E. Dr. Haifa Abu…

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  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Press Release

UNFPA launches research challenge to ensure sexual and reproductive health and rights inform global climate solutions

New York, 25 June 2024 - UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, in collaboration with academic partners, is pleased to announce the launch of Climate Change XX: Women’s…

UNFPA launches research challenge to ensure sexual and reproductive health and…

New York, 25 June 2024 - UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, in collaboration with academic partners…

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  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Statement

Hearing and healing survivors of sexual violence is essential to lasting peace

Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict

Hearing and healing survivors of sexual violence is essential to lasting peace

Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in…

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  • 31 May 2024
  • Statement

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee: No time to lose as famine stalks millions in Sudan amid intense fighting and access denials

NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME/WASHINGTON – Time is running out for millions of people in Sudan who are at imminent risk of famine, displaced from their lands, living under bombardments, and cut off from…

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee: No time to lose…

NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME/WASHINGTON – Time is running out for millions of people in Sudan who are at imminent risk of famine,…

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  • 31 May 2024
  • Press Release

Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark announced as Patron of UNFPA

The Royal House of Denmark has announced that Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark will engage as Patron of UNFPA, The United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.

Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark announced as Patron of UNFPA

The Royal House of Denmark has announced that Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark will engage as Patron of UNFPA, The United Nations…

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  • 30 May 2024
  • Press Release

UNFPA Launches World’s First Initiative to Include Reproductive Health in ESG Standards

First-of-its kind metrics to track progress on key social issues in the workplace including maternity leave, fertility treatments, sexual harassment protocols

UNFPA Launches World’s First Initiative to Include Reproductive Health in ESG…

First-of-its kind metrics to track progress on key social issues in the workplace including maternity leave, fertility treatments…

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  • 28 May 2024
  • Press Release

Climate emergency threatens 41 million people, their livelihoods and health care in low-elevation coastal areas in Latin America and Caribbean

Tens of millions of people living in low-elevation coastal areas in Latin America and the Caribbean are facing the consequences of extreme weather events that threaten their lives and livelihoods and…

Climate emergency threatens 41 million people, their livelihoods and health…

Tens of millions of people living in low-elevation coastal areas in Latin America and the Caribbean are facing the consequences…

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  • 20 May 2024
  • Statement

Funding gap, increased insecurity jeopardize the lives of Rohingya women and girls

Seven years after the Rohingya people were driven from their homes in Myanmar, close to one million remain stranded in the refugee camps of Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district – over half of them women…

Funding gap, increased insecurity jeopardize the lives of Rohingya women and…

Seven years after the Rohingya people were driven from their homes in Myanmar, close to one million remain stranded in the…

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