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European Union provides vital funding to sustain life-saving services for women and girls in Yemen
The European Union contributed EUR 5 million to UNFPA, to provide emergency relief for displaced persons and life-saving reproductive health and... Read more
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Supports UNFPA to Meet the Urgent Reproductive Health Needs of Women in West Coast of Yemen
UNFPA welcomes the contribution of US$2.6 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to provide emergency reproductive health services in western... Read more
Iceland Helps to Boost Support for Women’s Protection in Yemen
The Government of Iceland helps to boost women’s protection interventions in Yemen with a contribution of $200,000 to UNFPA, the United Nations... Read more
Support to Sustain Women’s Protection Services
The Government of Norway helps to sustain women’s protection interventions in Yemen with a contribution of NOK 20 million (USD $1.93 million) to... Read more
A matter of life and death for Yemen’s women and girls as funding dries up
UNFPA has been forced to suspend the provision of reproductive health care in 140 out of 180 health facilities.
In Yemen and around the world, obstetric fistula strikes the most vulnerable women
Hundreds of thousands of women are living with obstetric fistula in Yemen and around the world – a traumatic birth injury. And it could be worsening.
With Yemen’s health system approaching a breaking point, displaced women sew face masks to protect community
With more than 130 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Yemen, and dozens of deaths, the country is struggling to keep the full impact of the pandemic at... Read more
COVID-19 strikes Yemen as humanitarian funding dries up
Health workers, already stretched to the limit by five years of grinding conflict, are sounding the alarm that the pandemic could spell catastrophe... Read more
Urgent funding needed to protect health and safety of women and girls in Yemen amidst COVID-19
More than 48,000 women could die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth in Yemen, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, due to severe... Read more
UNFPA-led Rapid Response Mechanism Activated as Floods Hit Yemen
Torrential rains and flooding since mid-April impacted more than 100,000 people across Yemen. Flooding has damaged roads, bridges and the electricity grid, and contaminated water supplies, cutting... Read more