12.6 million women and girls in Yemen need life-saving support
New York/Geneva, 27 February 2023 – As governments meet in Geneva to raise funds for the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Yemen, UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, urgently reminds the world of the catastrophic impact eight years of war has had on women and girls. With 12.6 million women in need of lifesaving reproductive health and protection services, UNFPA is appealing for US$70 million to sustain these programmes for women and girls.
Rallying men and boys in the fight against female genital mutilation
“Everything that can harm must be fought.” Babani Sidi Mohamad first heard about female genital mutilation when he was 14 years old. His sisters had been subjected to female genital mutilation, but when he asked why, they didn’t know – they were too young at the time to understand what was happening to them.
Equality in dignity and rights for LGBTQIA+ people
In the matter of LGBTQIA+ rights, we started behind – it wasn’t until 1990 that homosexuality was declassified as a mental disorder by the World Health Organization, despite the 1948…
UNFPA Administrative Agent Annual Report 2019
Since 2007, UNFPA started to perform as an Administrative Agent (AA) for pass-through fund mechanism and continued to work actively with sister agencies in 2019 and took part in multi- stakeholder action that capitalizes on the consolidated strengths of UN entities under UN Development System pooled funding mechanisms.
UNFPA Administrative Agent Annual Report 2018
UNFPA continued in 2018 to actively work with sister agencies and take part in multi-stakeholder action that capitalizes on the consolidated strengths of UN entities under UN Development System pooled funding mechanisms, while leveraging further commitments from a broader range of stakeholders.