News

Global shortage of 900,000 midwives threatens women’s lives and health, new report shows

04 May 2021

Midwives with a mobile team in Marib, Yemen, provide life-saving services in a displacement camp. © UNFPA Yemen

News

In Yemen’s man-made catastrophe, women and girls pay the heaviest price

26 February 2021

Midwife Lena Al-Shurmani holds Abia's newborn baby shortly after delivery. Abia lost a lot of blood during childbirth. © UNFPA Yemen

News

From child bride to fearless face mask maker: Yemen’s safe spaces help women reclaim their lives

17 August 2020

Women make face masks in a safe space in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen

News

Ride-hailing app delivers contraceptives to users’ doorsteps

17 July 2020

The SafeBoda ride hailing app can now be used to order essential reproductive health supplies. © SafeBoda

News

With Yemen’s health system approaching a breaking point, displaced women sew face masks to protect community

19 May 2020

A woman at a safe space in Raymah sews face masks for her community. © RHDH/UNFPA

Updates

Sweden and UNFPA join forces to protect mothers and babies from COVID-19 in Sudan

13 May 2020

UNFPA-trained midwives are helping prevent COVID-19 infection and to deliver babies in Sudan. © UNFPA Sudan/Soufian Abdul-Mouty

News

As COVID-19 pandemic increases childcare burden, calls for Georgian men to step up

31 March 2020

Journalist and teacher Giorgi Liparishvili plays with his son Tevdore. © UNFPA Georgia/Guram Kapanadze

Updates

With Sweden, strengthening midwifery care worldwide

16 Dec 2019

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem meets with midwifery students at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. © UNFPA/Pernille Fenger

Speech

Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 Closing Ceremony

14 November 2019

News

Leaders call on world to end scourge of gender violence

26 September 2019

South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have seen particularly widespread sexual and gender-based violence, both during and in the aftermath of conflict. © UNFPA DRC

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