03 January 2018
News
Two mobile reproductive health teams have been deployed to the Sheikh Maqsoud area of Aleppo following the arrival of a UNFPA and Syrian Arab Red Crescent mission on 28 December,…
Read story27 December 2017
Statement
The Arab region, home to 346 million people, is predominantly young, as 28 percent of its population is composed of young women and men under 30 years of age. Half of the entire…
Read story19 December 2017
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“I was so desperate, I had lost hope; committing suicide seemed the only escape from the abuse, back then,” said Fatima*. “I didn’t know how to handle the pain, but now I do. I am…
Read story10 December 2017
Statement
Today, as we commemorate the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we celebrate the foundations that the Declaration provides for the right to sexual and…
Read story06 December 2017
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“There are lots of setbacks in life, but what matters is standing up again,” said 33-year-old Cojine*.
Read story24 November 2017
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Gender-based violence, along with harmful practices, such as child marriage and female genital mutilation, are human rights violations that rob women and girls of their futures…
Read story23 November 2017
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Violence against women and girls is the most pervasive human rights abuse in the world, affecting every country and community. One in three women will experience some form of…
Read story19 November 2017
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In the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that struck the Iraq-Iran border last Sunday evening, the office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Iraq scaled up its…
Read story11 November 2017
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UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is concerned about the effects of the total closure of air, sea and land access to Yemen on the people in the country, particularly the…
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