Governments are taking unprecedented measures to limit the spread of the rampaging coronavirus. They are ramping up health system responses…
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A United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Specialist in issues relating to gender-based violence, Eri Taniguchi, says there is a strong…
This Sunday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. The stakes could not be higher. This 2020 marks a quarter-century since…
Toll on civilians and health systems have continue to mount as clashes rage on in north-eastern Syria . Consequently, mass…
In tears, Lara* has recalled how her husband pulled out a real gun and pointed it at her when she…
Data from Mali by the Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (SWEDD) tend to show only 1.4 midwives for every 10,000 inhabitants. According…
A gynaecologist in northwest South Sudan, Dr Joseph Johnson, has said that the country is awash with horrific rape cases.…
Gender-based violence is still very rampant, data collected by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) this 2019 have shown. It occurs…
Lila Milic is a transgender sex worker. Going by her testimony, she has endured more than her share of mistreatment.…
Two years ago, 21-year-old Sithu from Myanmar contracted HIV despite being intimate only twice with his partner at the time. “If I…
Fifteen-year-old Juliana (not real name) mother of a baby boy says if she had had the support of her family,…
As in many countries, in Bhutan, a landlocked country in South Asia located in the Eastern Himalayas, bordered by the…
Two key United Nations agencies- Population Fund and Children Fund- have join forces to shut down the scourge of child…
Liberia is still struggling to provide sufficient maternal and newborn care services. The country has one of the 10 highest maternal death rates in…
The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr. Natalia Kanem, has said that hundreds of thousands of…
On the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, the Executive Director of the UN Population…
With only six weeks to go until the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25, it is crunch time for all partners to secure…
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has said that a devastating and preventable childbirth injury is still haunting women. In…