Events

What's Next? ICPD Through the Lens of Reproductive Justice

calendar_today14 October 2020

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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem Message on the International Day of the Girl Child

October 8, 2020
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Let’s listen to girls and uphold their rights

11 October 2020
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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.

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Progress towards gender equality at risk, say leaders at 25th anniversary of Beijing women’s conference

02 October 2020
The UN General Assembly held a high-level meeting on the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women. © UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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Virtual Expert Group Meeting on Access versus Privacy: The Special Case of Population Data

calendar_today06 October - 08 October 2020

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Survivors of sexual violence need healing and justice even amid pandemic, leaders assert

29 September 2020
Women and Girls’ Treatment and Support Centre offers specialized, sensitive care for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. © UNFPA/Khetam Malkawi
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Three things you need to know about contraceptives and COVID-19

25 September 2020
Voluntary family planning is a public health and human rights imperative. Image from Unsplash/RHSupplies
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Coming together in a time of COVID-19

September 29, 2020

At 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.