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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Population Day
Want to improve women’s lives and countries’ prospects for prosperity? Expand contraceptive choice. Her life. Her choice. Our future. Women have a right to make their own decisions about whether... Read more
Active male engagement strengthening efforts at ending FGM and child marriage in Afar Region
Twenty-five year old Falum Zeinu has been participating in the Integrated Programme on the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Child Marriage being implemented in his district for the... Read more
Empowering women to take decisions on their wellbeing
“Before the start of the programme in my locality, women were perceived as property of men with no meaningful involvement in the community,” says forty-three year-old Zewditu Luqas speaking about the... Read more
People-centered development is critical for Africa's future to ensure the Africa We Want
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, recommitted to the revolutionary decision taken at the 1994 International Conference on Population and... Read more
Somali Region President assures support for a UNFPA supported project funded by Denmark
A high level mission led by Karin Poulsen, Danish Ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti, South Sudan and Sudan, permanent representative to the African Union, IGAD and UNECA, was assured by the President... Read more
UNFPA advocacy event highlights the need to redouble efforts to ensure reproductive rights and choices for all
A high level advocacy event held today around the theme of the State of World Population 2019 – UNFPA’s flagship report – “Unfinished business in the pursuit of rights and choices for all”... Read more
UNFPA says UN Youth Results Group contributing to youth engagement
In a discussion that the UN Country Team held today with the UN Youth Envoy, Jayathma Wickramanayake, it was disclosed that the UN Results Group on the Youth is contributing to youth engagement... Read more
A Young anti-FGM Champion
Tigist Alemayehu, 16-, is a 7th grade student at the Fullasa Catholic Primary School in Yibra town in Sothern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region. She was planning to bet cut during her summer... Read more
World must work harder to secure sexual and reproductive rights for all, says new UNFPA report
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 10 April 2019— The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women, empowering them to govern their own... Read more
Project on women’s & girl’s economic empowerment and social protection phased out
The Economic and Social Women Empowerment and Protection of Women and Girls from Harmful Traditional Practices Project was officially closed today in the presence of partners and stakeholders. The 16... Read more