The Latest Breaking News from UNFPA

The United Nations established the Day of the Girl a decade ago to address issues that affect girls' rights: education, teen pregnancy, child marriage. Steady progress has been made. Then came COVID.

Women and girls in Yemen suffer the harshest fallout from the severe funding shortfall of the Humanitarian Rapid Response Mechanism and the floods that struck most of the refugee camps in several governorates, recent UN reports revealed. Of the 4.3 million people displaced within Yemen, more than three-quarters are women…

A third of the country is under water and a UN fund says almost 650,000 women in affected areas need maternity services

Rubina Mallah took a perilous, three-hour boat journey across flood waters to get to the nearest hospital in time to give birth to her baby son, as the roads leading to the clinic in the southern Pakistani city of Sehwan were submerged.

India's homegrown cervical cancer shot, announced on Thursday, will be made available first to the country's poorest before being exported to other countries in need.

The lights are flashing red as we look at the cascade of humanitarian crises in Asia and the Pacific.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has praised African countries for improvements in health services that have seen average life expectancy jump by a whopping 10 years.

With Beijing’s zero Covid policy set to continue, many disillusioned citizens have begun planning to leave the country

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has announced a contribution of $2.5 million, supporting the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), to provide life-saving reproductive health services to the most vulnerable women and girls in Yemen. The funding will help increase access to reproductive health services for women…

Some nonprofit groups have welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court decision. But many global reproductive and women's rights groups condemned the ruling.

Restricting abortion access does not stop people seeking the procedure "it only makes it more deadly," a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 1973 decision legalizing abortion.