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17/04/2020

Combating domestic violence in Kiribati

17/05/2019

Support to women's groups in Indonesia was provided through the Regional Prepositioning Initiative, a partnership between UNFPA and the Australian Government. Through the Initiative, UNFPA has provided 730 maternity kits, 490 post-delivery kits, 560 newborn kits, 950 hygiene kits and 150 elderly kits. Throughout 2019 over $400,000 worth of supplies were provided to help people affected by emergencies in eight countries across the Asia Pacific region.

07/04/2020

On World Health Day 2020, in the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, we celebrate Iran's midwives who are supporting pregnant women and new mothers and their babies at a time of COVID-19 - often putting their own health and safety on the line while providing lifesaving services for others. UNFPA Iran works to strengthen and promote midwifery as a crucial profession in Iran, all the more vital at this time of crisis.

06/04/2020

"Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for #COVID19 face violence where they should be safest: in their own homes. Today I appeal for peace in homes around the world. I urge all governments to put women’s safety first as they respond to the pandemic." - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, 5 April, 2020.

For more on what UNFPA does to protect women from gender-based violence, including in the context of COVID-19, here's our special technical brief on this crucial issue: https://bit.ly/2UN9mmp

For all our key COVID-19 material, visit: https://www.unfpa.org/covid19

08/03/2020

Doctors, nurses and midwives are critical in the fight to contain COVID-19 in hard-hit Iran. Listen to their stories of courage and sacrifice in this International Women's Day 2020 special on Generation Equality! Today and every day, UNFPA honours the work of all women health care providers, in Iran and globally.

26/02/2020

Do you know which country has committed to ensuring all women and girls can access quality information and services aimed at ending gender-based violence by 2030?

Or which country has committed to reducing its maternal mortality ratio from 170 to less than 70 per 100,000 live births over the next decade?

At the landmark ICPD25 Nairobi Summit, 26 governments from Asia and the Pacific were joined by civil society representatives and the private sector, resulting in 152 commitments towards accelerating and achieving the Programme of Action.

Our new video spells it all out!

11/07/2019

We are working hard, day after day, to ensure rights and choices for all and we won't give up until no one is left behind, because at UNFPA we believe everyone counts. Here is a glimpse of what we did in 2018 to help advance rights and choices for all. 

 

 

05/05/2019

The UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office presents a special "ICPD25: What's Changed?" panel discussion on midwifery, to commemorate the International Day of the Midwife 2019, recorded in Bangkok on April 30, on the sidelines of the APRO Workshop on Roadmaps to End Preventable Maternal Mortality in the 12 highest burden countries.

The panellists: 

From the significant changes in midwifery practice across Asia-Pacific and globally since the ICPD Programme of Action in 1994 to the unfinished business in ending maternal mortality as we seek to accelerate ICPD and achieve the SDGs, our panelists share their experiences and contributions to UNFPA's Transformational Result of zero maternal deaths - including deeply-felt personal stories of what they've witnessed in the field, not only in numerous countries across Asia-Pacific but also through their work in other regions, including Africa.

This inspiring panel discussion explains what UNFPA and its partners have done to end maternal and newborn deaths, including in humanitarian settings such as Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, and to strengthen midwifery as a profession by working with governments and civil society partners to empower and elevate midwives in the sphere of public health.

We dedicate this edition of What's Changed? to all the midwives and skilled birth attendants the world over, resonating with this year's IDM theme: Midwives - Defenders of Human Rights!

10/04/2019

Reproductive rights and choices have become a reality for more women than ever. Although continuing our success is by no means a certainty: rights are still out of reach for too many women. Our challenge is to finish the unfinished business of guaranteeing rights and choices for all. Watch this companion video to our 2019 flagship State of World Population report "Unfinished Business: Ensuring Rights and Choices for All."

28/11/2018

Getting 179 governments to agree on something is never easy.

But that’s exactly what happened at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. After four years of comprehensive consultations and heated negotiations leading up to the Conference, the result was a Programme of Action that, for the first time, placed individual dignity and human rights firmly at the heart of human development.

It did so by reconciling diverse views on population and development, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health, and sustainable development; acknowledging rights and choices for all; and recognising that these interlinked pillars are key to shaping and implementing policies that will empower individuals and, by extension, entire societies and nations.

Truly revolutionary at the time, ICPD remains all the more urgent and relevant a quarter-century later in this era of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.

This video - created for the 2018 Mid-Term Review of the Asian Ministerial Declaration on Population and Development -  demonstrates why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft2L0gPeaBg&t=29s

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