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How a phone number is preventing GBV in Sudan
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Never let it be said that crisis doesn’t spark innovation. As billions went into lockdown and economies shrank amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations Population Fund... Read more
The fight to ban FGM in Sudan isn’t over
KHARTOUM, Sudan --- Sudan has taken major stepsto defeat Female Genital Mutilation and the United Nations Population Fund will continue to lead efforts to fully ban the practice, the agency said.... Read more
COVID-19 is a crisis for women in Sudan
Women and youth helped bring change in Sudan and can limit spread of COVID-19 KHARTOUM — The COVID-19 pandemic is set to exacerbate pre-existing gender inequalities and the virus’s impact will... Read more
My Body, My Life, My World! – a brand new rallying cry for the SDG generation
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on International Youth Day From their communities to their capital cities, young people everywhere are demanding their rights, as affirmed 25... Read more
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Population Day
Want to improve women’s lives and countries’ prospects for prosperity? Expand contraceptive choice. Her life. Her choice. Our future. Women have a right to make their own decisions about whether,... Read more
World must work harder to secure sexual and reproductive rights for all, says new UNFPA report
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 10 April 2019— The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women, empowering them to govern their own... Read more
Take action to eliminate female genital mutilation by 2030
Mary Oloiparuni was 13 when she was mutilated. Restrained in a doorway early one morning in her home, she was cut, bled profusely and experienced agonizing pain. The scarring she endured then... Read more
UNFPA ANNUAL REPORT 2017
MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Year on year, millions of women and adolescents in 155 countries and territories have been progressively able to exercise their sexual and reproductive health... Read more
Fifty years ago, it became official: Family planning is a human right
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Fifty years ago, on 13 May, the world declared family planning to be a basic human right. Throughout all of human history, efforts to plan, avoid or delay pregnancy had... Read more
Nine standards to uphold the human right to family planning
Fifty years ago, on 13 May, the world declared family planning to be a basic human right. Until family planning is a universally available choice, this human right will not be fully realized. UNFPA... Read more