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Women, girls, health workers must not be overlooked in global COVID-19 response
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem New York, 26 March 2020 - With each passing day, the scale of the COVID-19 crisis and its consequences are becoming ever more apparent and... Read more
UNFPA Arab States Regional Office launches ‘A Women Even Here’ campaign
Cairo, 8 March 2020 – UNFPA Arab States Regional Office (ASRO) is marking this year’s International Women’s Day by launching a digital awareness and fundraising campaign ‘A Woman Even Here’. The... Read more
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on International Women's Day, 8 March 2020
This International Women's Day, we celebrate the icons who blazed the trail towards gender equality. We now look to today’s generation of activists, women who are shaping a vision of a better... Read more
UNFPA statement on novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and pregnancy
UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, is closely monitoring and working with partners, governments and UN agencies to address the outbreak of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19),... Read more
UNFPA Algeria shares results of the qualitative study on "Promotion of Women's Rights and Men's Perception of Gender-Based Violence in Algeria".
On 02/26/2020 at the Radisson Blu hotel, UNFPA Algeria office shared the results of the qualitative study on “The Promotion of Women's Rights and Men's Perception of Violence Based on Gender in... Read more
The Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 FACTS AND FIGURES as of 11 February 2020
More than 8,300 people participated in the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 (The official number is 8,355) Summit participants included more than 2,500 heads of state and other top government officials and... Read more
UNFPA Algeria and Ministry of Health : Second survey to consolidate the maternal death rate
In Algeria, the maternal mortality rate has been reduced by more than 50% between 1999 and 2016, from 117.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births respectively to 57.7 maternal deaths, according to... 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
Algeria celebrates the World Population Day
The Ministry of Health and UNFPA organized a joint event to celebrate WPD on 11 July at the National Institute of Public Health (INSP). The event’s theme was ‘25 years after the ICPD: Accelerating... Read more