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Women, girls, health workers must not be overlooked in global COVID-19 response

calendar_today 27 March 2020

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Women, girls, health workers must not be overlooked in global COVID-19 response

Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem  ​New York, 26 March 2020 - With each passing day, the scale of the COVID-19 crisis and its consequences are becoming ever…

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As pandemic rages, women and girls face intensified risks

calendar_today 24 March 2020

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As pandemic rages, women and girls face intensified risks

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages around the world, governments are taking unprecedented measures to limit the spread of the virus, ramping up health system responses and announcing…

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UNFPA Arab States Regional Office launches ‘A Women Even Here’ campaign

calendar_today 18 March 2020

Press Release

UNFPA Arab States Regional Office launches ‘A Women Even Here’ campaign

Cairo, 8 March 2020 – UNFPA Arab States Regional Office (ASRO) is marking this year’s International Women’s Day by launching a digital awareness and fundraising campaign ‘A Woman…

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UNFPA sounds the alarm on dire situation facing women and girls in Syria,  as conflict enters its 10th year

calendar_today 16 March 2020

Press Release

UNFPA sounds the alarm on dire situation facing women and girls in Syria, as conflict enters its 10th year

NEW YORK, USA, 16 March 2020 - UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, expresses increasing concern about the women and girls trapped in the escalating…

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“We must resolutely resist any attempts to go back”: Listening to the icons and activists of women’s rights

calendar_today 06 March 2020

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“We must resolutely resist any attempts to go back”: Listening to the icons and activists of women’s rights

This year marks a quarter century since the creation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a global blueprint for advancing the rights of women. It called for…

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I am Generation Equality: Working together to achieve a gender-equal world

calendar_today 06 March 2020

Statement

I am Generation Equality: Working together to achieve a gender-equal world

This International Women's Day, we celebrate the icons who blazed the trail towards gender equality. We now look to today’s generation of activists, women who are shaping a vision…

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UNFPA statement on novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and pregnancy

calendar_today 06 March 2020

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UNFPA statement on novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and pregnancy

UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, is closely monitoring and working with partners, governments and UN agencies to address the outbreak of the new coronavirus…

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Maternal deaths declining in Morocco thanks to midwives, but more support needed

calendar_today 27 February 2020

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Maternal deaths declining in Morocco thanks to midwives, but more support needed

RABAT, Morocco – Madame Najat Baloui, a midwife in Casablanca, vividly remembers a childbirth that went horribly wrong. “A woman was delivering vaginally,” Ms. Baloui recalled. …

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Statement on the events taking place in Northwestern Syria

calendar_today 19 February 2020

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Statement on the events taking place in Northwestern Syria

Cairo, 18 February 2020 - UNFPA is gravely alarmed about the current humanitarian situation unfolding in northwestern Syria, where hostilities have continued to cause mass…

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