06 July 2022
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ISTANBUL – Florence Bauer has been appointed as UNFPA’s Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and has assumed her new functions. "I'm…
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KYIV, Ukraine – “I caught the last evacuation train out. The next day, the station was bombed.” Katya is still haunted by the very different turn her life…
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“At Father School, we learn what responsible parenting is,” said Ionat Chintea. “How to educate our children, and how we can combat gender stereotypes that ultimately can lead to…
Read story17 June 2022
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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem When wars begin, so does the terror and devastation of sexual violence. The bodies of women and girls become…
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“The joy of being a father starts with equal participation alongside the mother in taking care of the child.” Adrian Băluțel is 29 years old, the father of a four-month baby boy…
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By Giulia Vallese Older people were a small minority only a few decades ago, but driven by increasing life expectancy and low fertility rates, their share of the population…
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Since the start of the war in Ukraine on 24 February 2022, we have witnessed a devastating escalation of violence which has resulted in the large-scale displacement of close to…
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LVIV, Ukraine/UNITED NATIONS, New York – When Viktoria Kravets, 17, woke up early on 24 February in her home in Ukraine, she knew something was terribly wrong. &ldquo…
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Some 300 adolescent girls and young women across Burkina Faso and Moldova will trial IMMI Watch, the first digital watch to track a menstrual cycle without an app, in a new UNFPA…
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