17 December 2024

News

“I came to help my sisters”: As Chad grapples with record floods and a refugee crisis, midwives are bridging the divide

A woman collects clean drinking water in a camp sheltering more than 4,000 displaced people after the Chari River flooded in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, in October 2024. Credit: © UNFPA Chad / Karel Prinsloo
  • 17 December 2024
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09 December 2024

12 November 2024

Updates

Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health: Considerations for the ICPD Agenda

23 Oct 2024

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Press Release

A warming planet, a world unraveling: Women and girls pay the price on the frontlines of the climate crisis, new UNFPA analysis finds

19 November 2024

1

News

A sisterhood of support: Improving maternity care in Ethiopia’s climate change-ravaged Somali region

A pregnant woman is attended to by a midwife at the Karamara Hospital in Ethiopia’s Somali region; every month health workers at the hospital safely assist some 600 deliveries. Credit: UNFPA Ethiopia
  • 11 November 2024
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News

What women and girls need most as climate disasters and displacement wreak havoc across the world

Georgette and her baby, Freddy, wait to be seen at the Maroalakely health centre, where UNFPA staff also helped register the baby for a birth certificate. © UNFPA Madagascar/Jean Martin
  • 18 November 2024
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United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29)

11 November - 22 November 2024

Baku, Azerbaijan

1

News

Unleashing the potential of adolescent girls in India through life skills education

Zohra Fatima, 15, plays cricket with her friends at the Madrasa Islamia Anjuman Mufidul Islam in Bihar. © UNFPA India
  • 10 October 2024
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