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Este diagnóstico es resultado del proyecto regional Desafiar las prácticas que perjudican a mujeres y niñas e impiden la igualdad en América Latina y el Caribe, liderado por UNFPA LACRO y financiado por AECID. Colombia como país participante del proyecto realizó el siguiente diagnóstico con el objetivo de profundizar en la caracterización de los MIUTF desde metodologías cuantitativas y cualitativas que permitieron s... Día Nacional por la Dignidad de las Mujeres Víctimas de Violencia Sexual en el Marco del Conflicto Armado Una fecha para reconocer la dignidad de todas las mujeres víctimas y sobrevivientes de las múltiples formas de esta violencia en el conflicto, redoblar los esfuerzos para su reparación y contribuir en la garantía de no repetición

The State of Gender-Responsive Family Policies in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region provides a set of recommendations aimed at helping governments shape policies that will enable individuals to balance their work and life responsibilities more equally. Focused on seven areas — maternity leave, paternity leave, parental leave, carer’s leave, flexible working arrangements, early childhood education and care,... A two-day international forum on population censuses in the CIS region, held on 22-23 May 2023 in Almaty, reaffirmed the importance of censuses for socio-economic forecasting and evidence-based policy-making. The forum, which was organized by Kazakhstan’s Bureau of National Statistics, the CIS Interstate Statistical Committee and UNFPA, served to discuss experiences from recent censuses in the region and draw le... “This is not an easy job but a rewarding one, especially when you realize that you have helped a woman to live free from violence and move on with her life.” Stojne Miteva, 42, from Strumica in south-eastern North Macedonia, volunteers as a psychologist and leads the work at a shelter for survivors of gender-based and domestic violence. Having previously worked as a journalist in Strumica, Ms. Miteva had covere...

What we do Gender-based violence A staggering 32 per cent of women have experienced physical violence in Pakistan and 40 per cent of ever-married women have suffered from spousal abuse at some point in their life (The Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2012-2013). However, these statistics do not accurately represent the full extent of cases. One in two Pakistani women who have experienced violence never sought help or told anyone about the violence they had experienced. While the Government of Pakistan has passed various laws to prevent violence and support those affected by it, the conviction rate for violence against women sits at only 1-2.5 per cent. Resources and services for women survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) remain scarce. Health services personnel are inadequately equipped, referral systems are limited, and insufficient training on GBV combined with low investment in human capital enhances the vulnerability of women. These gaps exist on the backdrop of a structurally and culturally patriarchal society, where social norms promote gender-based abuses, disclosure to violence is discouraged and women are often blamed for their abuse. The need to change minds and behaviors is immense, and it is within this landscape that UNFPA continues to work toward change. Preventing and addressing GBV There are numerous barriers in the prevention of and response to GBV in Pakistan, including misperceptions around GBV, limited or ineffectual legislation and lack of su...

The Iraqi Prime Minister, His Excellency Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani, officially launched Iraq's National Population Policy in Baghdad on 17 May. The occasion coincided with the annual conference of the Arab League’s Council for Population and Development, which was hosted by the Government of Iraq in Baghdad, with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). UNFPA Iraq and Viber have officially launched a social media awareness campaign to promote information-sharing on early marriage in Iraq. The campaign seeks to engage young people in an easy and interactive approach, providing them with the necessary knowledge and information to make informed choices about their lives.

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA is formally named the United Nations Population Fund. The organization was created in 1969, the same year the United Nations General Assembly declared “parents have the exclusive right to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children.” UNFPA calls for the realization of reproductive rights for all and supports access to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services – including voluntary family planning, maternal health care and comprehensive sexuality education. UNFPA Supports: • Reproductive health care for women and youth in more than 150 countries – which are home to more than 80 per cent of the world’s population • The health of pregnant women, especially the 1 million who face life-threatening complications each month • Reliable access to modern contraceptives sufficient to benefit 20 million women a year • Training of thousands of health workers to help ensure at least 90 per cent of all childbirths are supervised by skilled attendants • Prevention of gender-based violence, which affects 1 in 3 women • Abandonment of female genital mutilation, which harms 3 million girls annually • Prevention of teen pregnancies, complications of which are the leading cause of death for girls 15-19 years old • Efforts to end child marri...

Earthquake in Türkiye and Syria As the effects of the earthquake unfold in Türkiye and Syria, UNFPA is on the ground working with public authorities to continue delivering life-saving sexual and reproductive health services. We need your urgent help today to reach more women and girls impacted by the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria! Geospatial dashboard on Intimate Partner Violence Reliable and comparable data on violence against women is essential for prevention and response efforts. UNFPA's first geospatial dashboard on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) featuresnational datafor 119 countries, sub-national data, and disaggregated data on IPV by age, place of residence, employment, education, and household wealth.

The year 2022 marked an important landmark for UNFPA in India – the successful completion of the 9th Country Programme (2018-2022), another milestone in the long list of achievements of UNFPA in the country since the first programme in 1974. It also marked the transition to the 10th Country Programme (2023-2027), which will be addressing new challenges for India in the coming five years. UNFPA will continue to concen... As the world population touched eight billion in November 2022, India entered into a new age as the world’s largest country in 2023 with a high proportion of the working age population with the potential to produce a ‘phenomenal’ demographic dividend to catapult India into the top three economies of the world in the next 25 years. Our case is that harnessing the gender dividend is even more critical and transformatio... Every member of our human family has the right to make free and informed choices about their health, bodies and futures. This right should be the starting point for all conversations about population. Population is, after all, about people, about creating the conditions for all 8 billion of us to live freely and fully, equal in dignity and rights, on a healthy, safe and prosperous planet. When we invest in people an...