- 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,…
Read story- 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…
Read story- 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…
Read story- 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…
Read story- 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…
Read story- 15 May 2024
- Press Release
UNFPA's Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity reaffirms the need for hard-fought rights to be upheld despite emerging global trends
More than 200 participants are gathering in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 15 and 16 May to discuss how to achieve sustainable and equitable development in a world more demographically diverse than ever…
UNFPA's Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity reaffirms the need for…
More than 200 participants are gathering in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 15 and 16 May to discuss how to achieve sustainable and…
Read story- 05 May 2024
- Statement
Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the potential invasion in Rafah
Close to seven months of war has inflicted unimaginable suffering on the people of Gaza, including hundreds of thousands of pregnant and breastfeeding women and newborns. Many have been displaced…
Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the potential…
Close to seven months of war has inflicted unimaginable suffering on the people of Gaza, including hundreds of thousands of…
Read story- 03 May 2024
- Statement
The world must not abandon the women and girls of Haiti
Every day brings new horrors for women and girls in Port-au-Prince, as violence has reached terrifying levels in recent months. Residents of the Haitian capital and surrounding areas live in fear as…
The world must not abandon the women and girls of Haiti
Every day brings new horrors for women and girls in Port-au-Prince, as violence has reached terrifying levels in recent months.…
Read story- 02 May 2024
- Statement
Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day of the Midwife 2024
Right now, around the world, millions of lives are in the hands of midwives. Whether they are wading through flood waters to reach pregnant women or delivering babies amid the rubble of an earthquake…
Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International…
Right now, around the world, millions of lives are in the hands of midwives. Whether they are wading through flood waters to…
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