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04 April 2017
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Statement by UNFPA on U.S. Decision to Withhold Funding
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 4 April 2017—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, regrets the decision by the United States to deny any future funding for its life-saving…
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19 March 2017
Press Release
UNFPA Leading the Provision of Reproductive Health Services inside West Mosul
Baghdad, Iraq, 19 March 2017 – One month into the Military operations to retake the West side of Mosul city, the humanitarian needs of thousands of the families still…
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16 March 2017
Press Release
UNFPA Providing Frontline Emergency Response to Families Fleeing West Mosul
Baghdad, Iraq, 16 March 2017 – As more people flee the current fighting in the West of Mosul city reaching around 97,000 individuals, UNFPA is stepping up efforts to meet…
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03 March 2017
Press Release
UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Visits UNFPA Women’s Center in Dohuk
Dohuk, Iraq, 3 March 2017 – Today, the Under Secretary-General and Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Ms. Zainab Hawa…
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09 February 2017
Press Release
UNFPA Helps 100,000 Woman and Girl to Preserve their Dignity in Eastern Mosul
Baghdad, Iraq, 9 February 2017 – In crisis situations, needs for shelter, food and security are rightly given urgent attention. Yet, specific needs of women and girls are…
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10 December 2016
Press Release
UN PROVIDES VITAL FOOD AND AID TO 42,000 PEOPLE IN EASTERN MOSUL
BAGHDAD – In the single largest humanitarian aid delivery in eastern Mosul since the current conflict began, the World Food Programme (WFP), UNICEF and the United Nations…
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28 November 2016
Press Release
United Nations kicks off Campaign to combat gender-based violence in Iraq
Baghdad/Erbil, Iraq, 28 November 2016 – Under the theme “From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World: Step Up for Freedom and Equality”, the United Nations in…
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27 November 2016
News
UNFPA-supported centre helps sexually and psychologically abused women get over trauma
“I was raped…I hated life and attempted to commit suicide... But things have changed now,” said one Yazidi woman who escaped the so-called Islamic State of…
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27 November 2016
Press Release
WHO and UNFPA deliver life-saving health care to populations in Eastern Mosul
27 November 2016, Erbil, Iraq –WHO and UNFPA are scaling up primary and reproductive health services in eastern Mosul to ensure life-saving care for more than 60,000 people…
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