Events
What's Next? ICPD Through the Lens of Reproductive Justice
14 October 2020
Youtube Live
Video
UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem Message on the International Day of the Girl Child
October 8, 2020Statement
Let’s listen to girls and uphold their rights
11 October 2020Adapting to COVID-19: Pivoting the UNFPA–UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage to Respond to the Pandemic
Resource date: 23 September 2020
Author: UNFPA, UNICEF
The health, social, political and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are disproportionately affecting girls and women by exacerbating existing systemic gender inequalities at all levels, with potential implications for the incidence of child marriage. This brief describes how the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage has adapted its interventions to ensure we continue to reach and protect girls at risk of child marriage and already married girls during the pandemic providing a public good and insights for practitioners around the world.
UNFPA–UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage Phase I Report (2016-2019)
Resource date: 01 August 2020
Author: UNFPA, UNICEF
News
Progress towards gender equality at risk, say leaders at 25th anniversary of Beijing women’s conference
02 October 2020News
Survivors of sexual violence need healing and justice even amid pandemic, leaders assert
29 September 2020News
Three things you need to know about contraceptives and COVID-19
25 September 2020Video
Coming together in a time of COVID-19
September 29, 2020At the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, leaders from governments and international organizations called for specific actions to address the financial and socioeconomic consequences of COVID-19. UNFPA's Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem called for leaders to urgently support the health, rights and welfare of all.