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What we do
April 6, 2017Your support will help UNFPA protect human rights and make a difference around the world: unfpa.org/donate
UNFPA Engagement in Ending Gender-based Violence
Resource date: 24 March 2017
Author: UNFPA
Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the most pervasive, under-reported and unaddressed human rights violations in the world. It knows no social, economic or national boundaries. UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is working to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in 135 countries or territories worldwide, among them 43 crisis-affected countries experiencing conflict or natural disasters.
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Empowering women and girls requires renewed efforts to end violence and harmful practices
21 November 2016This is 2016 and yet one in three women worldwide still experiences or has experienced some form of physical or sexual violence, usually perpetrated by someone she knows. Moreover, millions of women and girls have been subjected to other forms of violence and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, which affect an estimated 200 million women and girls, or child marriage, with one in three girls in developing countries being married off before the age of 18.
When Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on 4 October, it caused the worse devastation since the 2010 earthquake. UNFPA is assessing the needs of affected women and girls, and is providing care, support and assistance.
Ten key facts and figures about 10-year-old girls
Resource date: 20 October 2016
Press release
UNFPA on standby to provide urgent psychosocial support, reproductive health care to rescued Chibok girls
14 October 2016UNFPA Humanitarian Action Overview 2016
Number of pages: 12
Publication date: 19 May 2016
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
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Essential services for women and girls who experience violence
March 11, 2016As part of an advocacy initiative under the United Nations Joint Global Programme on Essential Services for Women and Girls Subject to Violence, a moving infographic has been developed that captures the rationale for why women and girl victims and survivors of violence need to access quality essential services as a matter of right. The participating UN agencies include: UNFPA, UN WOMEN, WHO, UNDP and UNODC. These infographics have been developed in collaboration with the International Center for Research on Women and Teal Media.