The Committee on Relations with the Host Country hears a statement by a US delegate, and the United Nations Population Fund hears various speakers on the management of family planning programmes.
UNFPA launches Social Responsibility Skills for Young Entrepreneurs Project UNFPA and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs with the Ministry of Culture and Youth in the Kurdistan Regional Government launched the Social Responsibility Skills for Young Entrepreneurs project in Erbil. The project was based on the success story of the "Orange Corners Erbil Programme" […]
The Governorate of Diwaniyah and UNFPA inaugurated today the first Women Protection Centre in the Governorate, with funding from Canada and Sweden. The Centre will offer psychosocial and legal assistance, medical counselling and protection for survivors of gender-based violence. Women and girls will be able to benefit from special programmes on empowerment, life skills and […]
Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year, according to the 2021 State of World’s Midwifery report issued by UNFPA, WHO, International Confederation of Midwives and partners, which evaluates the midwifery workforce and related health resources in 194 countries. UNIFEED
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2. Wide shot, press room with screen changing from Kanem to Vodianova
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Natalia Vodianova, supermodel and philanthropist:
“It s such an honour for me to become a goodwill ambassador for UNFPA because they re not just talkers, they are at their core an organization of doers. Their programming drives their work, and they are among the few that quite literally show up for young people, women and girls, when they need it most.”
4. Wide shot, press room with Vodianova on screen
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Natalia Vodianova, supermodel and philanthropist:
“It s important to know that women and girls living with disabilities face double discrimination, and are disadvantaged, because of both their gender, and they disability. Just think about it, women with disabilities are two, three times more likely than women without disabilities to be physically and sexually abused. They re also less likely to report the abuse or find justice,