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Statement of UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, on the International Day of the Girl Child
“Is anyone out there even thinking of improving our lives?” asks Susmita, a teenager from Odisha, India. Susmita has never gone to school. She tends the few animals her family owns and attends to... Read more
UNFPA Delivering Hope in Qayyarah District of Mosul in Iraq
Baghdad, Iraq,1 September 2016 – On the first day of UNFPA’s support to WAHA, an international NGO active in the health field, a baby boy was born thanks to the medical skill of WAHA’s Dr. Tayseer... Read more
Escape from Fallujah: Pregnant residents describe life on the run from ISIL
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Residents of the long-embattled city of Fallujah are accustomed to hardship. But even for this battle-tested population, life under the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL,... Read more
Iraq Celebrates International Youth Day
Baghdad, 12 August 2016 - The Ministry of Youth and Sports in Iraq in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) organized the celebration of International Youth Day on 11 August... Read more
Ministry of Planning / UNFPA Iraq commemorate World Population Day in Baghdad
Baghdad, Iraq, 4 August 2016 - The Ministry of Planning of the Government of Iraq, with support from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) programme in Iraq, organized the national commemorative... Read more
UNFPA centre in KHANKE lessening the plight of Yazidi women enslaved by IS
KHANKE, DUHOK (IRAQ) — “Do not blame me for repeating my story as what happened to me is the unforgettable story of my life,” a Yazidi woman, who was abducted by the so-called Islamic State (IS),... Read more
The Statement of High Council of Women Affairs in the second anniversary of genocidal act committed against Yezidi by ISIS - The position of women combating extremism and terrorism
Erbil,Iraq, August 3rd, 2016 - Today, in the second anniversary of genocidal act committed by ISIS against Yezidi in Sinjar areas, KRG High Council of Women Affairs reiterates the following points,... Read more
UNFPA provides much needed support to internally displaced child brides in Iraq
ERBIL, Iraq— When she got married at the age of 12, Fatima, not her real name, thought of marriage as an end to the maltreatment from her family and to the beginning of a better life with the man to... Read more
Investing in teenage girls for a more just, stable and peaceful world
The teenage years are for some girls a time of exploration, learning and increasing autonomy. But for many others, it is a time of increasing vulnerability and exclusion from rights and opportunities... Read more
Right intervention at the right time saves women's lives in Sununi
SUNUNI, NINAWA/(IRAQ) — Back home after almost two years of displacement, women and girls in Sununi, the recently-liberated town from the Islamic State (IS), continued to experience social exclusion... Read more