United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Armed conflicts are placing more women and girls at risk. Yet attacks on humanitarian aid workers are rampant. ?? Join the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's call for increased support to aid workers who protect women and girls caught in humanitarian crises: https://unf.pa/sun #NotATarget #WednesdayWisdom

Amal was born on 2 October at the border between #Lebanon and Syria. Her mother, Khawla is one of 2,800 pregnant women estimated to have crossed into #Syria to escape intense airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut. See how the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is scaling up support for displaced women like Khawla: https://unf.pa/cra ?? Photo: ? Omaya AL Mekdad / UNFPA Syria

“We need a ceasefire now.” — Dr. Natalia Kanem, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director. Women and girls in the Middle East have suffered horrifically over the past year. The international community and all parties concerned must end this violence. See the full statement: https://unf.pa/swg #CeasefireNOW

#DidYouKnow: #Uganda is the only country in Eastern and Southern Africa on track to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2030? Still, surveillance groups continue to receive 2 to 3 alerts of FGM cases per month. See how the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is working to #EndFGM once and for all: https://unf.pa/fld #GlobalGoals

“I DO” is a phrase that no girl should ever be forced to say! See how the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is working to #EndChildMarriage around the world and taking action for #OurCommonFuture: https://unf.pa/ecm #ICPD30

Access to #contraception is key to exercising bodily autonomy. See how the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) helped prevent 18 million unintended pregnancies in 2023: https://unf.pa/fp #GlobalGoals

?? More than half of the population in #Afghanistan, an estimated 23.7 million people, are in need of emergency aid to survive. The situation is particularly difficult for women and girls, who face multiple restrictions imposed by the de facto authority and one of the world’s highest rates of women dying as a result of pregnancy and childbirth. Swipe to see how life-saving care from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is making #motherhood safer for women in desperate need and learn more about our work in Afghanistan ?? https://unf.pa/acw ?? Photos: ? UNFPA Afghanistan, UNFPA Afghanistan/Arlene Alano, UNFPA Afghanistan/Zaeem Abdul Rahman

"I really felt safe and at ease with her," says Toukam, a mother of twins. Stella is a skilled midwife who attends to new mothers like Toukam, pregnant women and newborns. Since she started working at Bana Sub-Divisional Hospital in #Cameroon in February 2024, staff and patients quickly felt a boost in trust and professional birth assistance. See how the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is recruiting midwives like Stella to make #motherhood safer: https://unf.pa/bta #GlobalGoals

?? Devastating violence – and now floods – have driven more than 10 million people from their homes since conflict erupted in #Sudan in April 2023. The consequences have been particularly harsh for women and girls, many of whom are unable to access health care, face extreme hunger and are subjected to shocking sexual violence. Swipe to see how women and girls are struggling to find safety amid unrelenting violence and find out how the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is responding with urgent, life-saving care: https://unf.pa/tfm ?? Photos: ? UNFPA Sudan / Sufian Abdul-Mouty, ? UNICEF/UNI603191/Jamal, ? El Fasher Maternity Hospital staff,? ? UNFPA Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan

?? Gender-based violence is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations. It's particularly dangerous for #indigenous women who live in remote areas. See how the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and USAID are working together to #ENDviolence in the #Amazon region in #Peru: https://unf.pa/gcp