A regional advocacy campaign calling for collective efforts to protect fundamental rights threatened by the impacts of the climate crisis.
PHOTO STORY: This collection of portraits presents the diversity of UNFPA’s response to climate disasters in the Pacific. UNFPA works with retired midwives, young people on remote atolls, the LGBTQI+ community, women leaders, persons with disabilities and government officials to uphold the fundamental rights and dignity of marginalised groups, before and after disasters hit. READ MORE
The climate emergency is wreaking havoc across the world, and particularly across Asia and the Pacific, at a scale that people on the frontlines and the humanitarian community cannot manage without increased investment and political will.
The climate crisis affects the social and environmental determinants of health, undermining full achievement of sexual and reproductive health and rights, and increasing risks of gender-based violence and harmful practices.
We must continue our joint efforts in preparing for and responding to humanitarian crises to safeguard the rights and needs of women, girls, and vulnerable populations.
Collectively, we must increase our investments in addressing the climate crisis. The cost of inaction will be that women, girls and the most vulnerable will be left even further behind.
UNFPA and the Government of Australia, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, are embarking on a regional advocacy campaign to encourage greater dialogue, closer collaboration and create a call-to-action for increased investments in inclusive and gender responsive and transformative climate action.
The campaign launched in and Dhaka, Bangladesh in November 2022 Suva, Fiji in December 2022
In partnership with
BANGLADESH: Through moving stories and powerful images, UNFPA & DFAT are showing the faces of the women and girls on the frontline of climate change and the enormous challenges they face as climate disasters intensify. READ MORE
OPINION-EDITORIAL: UNFPA Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Björn Andersson, says more needs to be done to destigmatize menstrual health and hygiene to help communities prepare for climate disasters. READ MORE
OPINION-EDITORIAL: Asia-Pacific Regional Director for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Björn Andersson says 80 percent of disaster-related displacements worldwide have occurred in the Asia-Pacific region over the past decade and that women and girls make up more than half of the displaced population globally. He says the intensification of extreme weather is also creating a crisis for sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence. READ MORE
VIDEO: The Asia-Pacific region is the most disaster prone in the world. In order to strengthen preparedness and build resilience, UNFPA’s Asia-Pacific Regional Office manages a flagship programme, the Regional Prepositioning Initiative, which targets the most disaster-prone countries in the region. WATCH THE VIDEO
PHOTO STORY: Climate-related disasters are eroding the hard-fought progress on health and gender equality and stretching already under-funded health services in developing countries. READ MORE
PHOTO STORY: As the climate crisis intensifies, the impacts on women, girls and the most vulnerable are increasingly cause for alarm. READ MORE
PHOTO STORY: Meet 3 young women preparing for the impacts of climate change. READ MORE
