calendar_today 19 May 2016

Press Release

Reaching Out to Meet the Needs of Women in a Complex Situation: With Support from Norway, UNFPA Provides Gender Based Violence Response Services in Alwand Camp in Diyala Governorate, Eastern Iraq

Erbil, Iraq, 19 May 2016 – The humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to worsen due to the intensification of military campaigns. In Diyala Governorate, Eastern Iraq,…

calendar_today 16 May 2016

Press Release

UNFPA Upscaling its Interventions in Response to Acute Emergency in Iraq: Opening of Two Reproductive Health Clinics in West Ramadi, Central Iraq

The United Nations Population Fund in cooperation with its national partner, United Iraqi Medical Society for relief and development and funded by the Japanese Government, opened…

calendar_today 16 May 2016

Press Release

UNFPA Upscaling its Interventions in Response to Acute Emergency in Iraq: Opening of Two Reproductive Health Clinics in West Ramadi, Central Iraq

Baghdad, Iraq, 16 May 2016 – The United Nations Population Fund in cooperation with its national partner, United Iraqi Medical Society for relief and development and funded…

calendar_today 05 May 2016

Midwives on the frontlines of fighting maternal mortality in Somalia

Nine years ago, Maymuun Abdullahi Nur’s mother died giving birth to her eighth child, during a delivery attended only by an untrained traditional birth attendant. Just 13 at the…

calendar_today 03 May 2016

Pregnant in a city under siege: Yemeni refugees find safety and maternal services in Djibouti

Four months pregnant and living amidst constant shelling and airstrikes, Jamila decided she had to flee her home in Taizz City, Yemen. “To leave everything behind and flee, not…

calendar_today 03 May 2016

Press Release

Aiming to Serve More than 1,500 Internally Displaced Women and Girls: UNFPA Establishes Women Safe Space in Debaga Camp Northern Iraq

Erbil, Iraq, 3 May 2016 – The United Nations Population Fund in cooperation with its national partner Al-Masala and funded by the United States Department of State ( Bureau…

calendar_today 27 April 2016

Women widowed by ISIL find hope and support in Iraq

Nadyia had to make a decision. Shortly after members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized control of Tall Afar, in north-western Iraq, she says the militants…

calendar_today 21 April 2016

Dispatches from the road: UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Ashley Judd describes visiting refugees in Jordan

In April, humanitarian, writer and actor Ashley Judd travelled to Jordan on her inaugural mission as UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador. During her two-week trip, she visited UNFPA…