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CRVS systems at a glance

August 15, 2017

CRVS systems at a glance This interview with Srdjan Mrkić, an expert at the United Nations Statistics Division, explains CRVS systems and their importance.

 

SERIES: About CRVS systems Find out more about CRVS systems, how they function, and why they are so important to both individuals and government in this series of interviews.

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The importance of registering births, marriages and deaths

September 12, 2017
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A boat clinic delivers crucial health care for women in remote villages in Benin

June 10, 2024

Women in the remote villages of Sô-Ava, Benin have limited access to reproductive health care and maternity wards.

A boat clinic, supported by UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—helps deliver the services they need.

Watch UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem’s visit to the clinic to see how UNFPA is working to ensure rights and choices for all women and girls, no matter where they live.

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Advancing Equity and Social Justice for People of African Descent

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Global dialogues for a renewed commitment to ICPD

June 5, 2024
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Heroic midwives save lives in northwest Syria

May 22, 2024

After 13 years of conflict, midwives in northwest Syria are saving lives.

See how crucial midwives are to ensuring pregnant women in need can give birth safely and find out more about how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting women and girls in Syria. Learn more. 

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Explainer: What is the ICPD and why does it matter?

29 March 2019
The ICPD marked a revolution in thinking about sexual and reproductive health and rights. © UN Photo
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UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation

UNFPA and UNICEF have jointly led the largest global programme to accelerate the elimination of female genital mutilation (FGM) since 2008. In close collaboration with governments, grassroots community organizations and other key stakeholders, the Joint Programme harnesses the complementary expertise of both UNFPA and UNICEF, as well as the latest social science research, to prevent female genital mutilation across the 17 countries where the programme operates.

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Babies are dying in Gaza hospital due to lack of ventilators

April 1, 2024

“Most babies will die.”

There aren’t enough ventilators at Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah, Gaza to support the babies being born there.

Let Dr. Ahmed Al-Shaer, Deputy Head of the Incubator Care Unit at the hospital, describe the desperate situation and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding to mothers and babies in need.

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