Statement

Empowering women and girls requires renewed efforts to end violence and harmful practices

21 November 2016

This 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.

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Press Release

UNFPA on standby to provide urgent psychosocial support, reproductive health care to rescued Chibok girls

14 October 2016
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Statement

Adoption of Sustainable Development Agenda Can Transform and Save Billions of Lives, Says UNFPA

25 September 2015
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Statement

2018 Nobel Prize for Peace to Dr. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad

05 October 2018
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News

UN Youth Strategy commits support to a new generation of leaders

25 September 2018
Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake (left, with UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem and Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen at a pre-launch panel), opened the launch with a call to listen to young people who have “broken barriers and shaken systems.” © UNFPA/Usenabasi Esiet
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