Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Population Day 11 July 2020 Peace in our world begins with peace in the home, as the United Nations Secretary-General stated in his...
Statement of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Interagency Working Group (UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA and UNODC) on Key Populations on the need to ensure access to quality, safe, and...
UNFPA Pakistan’s comprehensive COVID-19 Response Framework focuses on two main pillars UNFPA Pakistan’s comprehensive COVID-19 Response Framework focuses on two main pillars 233,921 Confirmed Cases...
Shakhnoz Amirova (not her real name) lives in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She has been taking antiretroviral therapy regularly since 2017, when she discovered that she was living with HIV. She continued...
Bangladesh + 22 more
Regional Situation With over 600,000 confirmed cases, India continues to see a rapid rise and has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the region. Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia continue...
Algeria + 19 more
Reporting Period: 1 - 30 June 2020 Regional Highlights All countries in the region have confirmed COVID-19 cases with the vast majority (around three quarters) among the Gulf Cooperation Council...
South Africa + 22 more
Regional Situation COVID-19 continues to take an upward trajectory over the last four months with a sharp rise during the last month; four-fold increase from just under 50,000 in early June. All...
Argentina + 40 more
Regional Highlights ● The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Latin America and the Caribbean in a context of low growth and, above all, of marked inequality and vulnerability, with growing poverty and extreme...
Nigeria + 22 more
Regional Highlights ● The total number of COVID-19 positive cases is nearing 100,000 in all 23 countries in West and Central Africa, four months after the first case was reported in Nigeria. By the...
Joint Op-ED by the Representatives of UNFPA and UN Women in Myanmar, co-chairs of the United Nations Country Team Gender Theme Group, on the occasion of Myanmar On behalf of the United Nations in...
Turkey + 15 more
Reporting Period: 1-30 June 2020 Regional Highlights ● All countries, except Turkmenistan, have officially reported COVID-19 cases. Armenia, Belarus and Moldova are the most affected relative to...
« Dans le contexte des urgences humanitaires, y compris les catastrophes naturelles (inondations, glissement de terrain, sécheresses, tremblement de terre, épidémies, mouvements de populations,...
BENTIU, South Sudan – Since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in South Sudan in April, more than 2,000 cases of the illness have been recorded. Tensions are rising within families and communities,...
TULUNAN, NORTH COTABATO, The Philippines --- The rainy season has come again, and for "Sarah" (not her real name), a single mother in her late 20s from Tulunan, it only brings back bitter memories...
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Every day, hundreds of thousands of girls around the world are harmed physically or psychologically, with the full knowledge and consent of their families, friends and...
Mogadishu, 30 June 2020 – The launch today of UNFPA’s annual flagship report;the State of World Population 2020: “Against my will: defying the practices that harm women and girls and undermine...
La pandemia del COVID-19 es una crisis social, económica y de salud pública de escala mundial. Dadas las restricciones migratorias y de movilidad, la sociedad civil y las organizaciones humanitarias...
La pandémie de COVID-19 est une crise de santé publique, sociale et économique d’envergure mondiale. Compte tenu des restrictions de voyage et de déplacement, la société civile et les organisations...
Refuser la crise silencieuse et endémique des pratiques néfastes Il est plus que temps de mettre un terme aux mutilations génitales féminines, au mariage des enfants et aux autres pratiques qui...
Hacer frente a las prácticas nocivas, una crisis silenciosa y endémica Nuevo informe del UNFPA: acabar con la mutilación genital femenina, el matrimonio infantil y demás prácticas que perjudican a...