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15 August 2018
Press Release

Increased assistance for vulnerable women and girls fleeing Hodeidah

UNFPA welcomed the generous contribution of $4.2 million from the Yemen Humanitarian Pooled Fund to assist the most vulnerable women and girls... Read more

8 August 2018
News

“I felt I was in hell” – Escalating hostilities threaten thousands of pregnant women in Yemen’s Hodeidah

HODEIDAH, Yemen – Escalating violence in Hodeidah, Yemen, threatens the city’s estimated 90,000 pregnant women and girls, UNFPA has announced. Some 14,000 of these women and girls are likely to... Read more

4 August 2018
News

Statement attributable to UNFPA Director for the Arab States Regional Office, Dr Luay Shabaneh, on the attack at Al Tharwa Hospital in Hodeidah

We are extremely shocked by the attack on Yemen’s largest hospital in Hodeidah. Al-Thawra Hospital serves as a major neonatal care facility.

1 August 2018
Press Release

90,000 pregnant women at risk from the escalating conflict in Hodeidah

The escalating situation in Hodeidah is placing women and girls of childbearing age at extreme risk, in particular an estimated 90,000 women inside... Read more

25 July 2018
News

Community dialogues to take action against GBV

UNFPA-supported community committees and men-tomen networks organized a series of 12 dialogues to identify the root causes of gender-based violence and its consequences and to encourage community... Read more

22 July 2018
News

Mitigating the psychological effects of GBV

In July, UNFPA supported the launch of two Family Counselling Centres in Sana’a and Aden to help alleviate the psychological effects of gender-based violence, which has recently increased due to the... Read more

17 July 2018
News
UNFPA Representative to Yemen speaking at the World Population Day event in Sana'a

Yemen Celebrates World Population Day 2018

UNFPA highlights healthy family planning as a right for every family on World Population Day 2018.

25 June 2018
News

Midwife escapes death after being denied maternal health care

Najat knew the dangers of childbirth. But when her own needs clashed with her husband’s traditional ideas, she suffered in ways she could not have... Read more

12 June 2018
News
Displaced women waiting for reproductive health services at a health facility in Hodeidah © UNFPA Yemen

Statement by Regional Director for Arab States on the Situation in Hodeidah

Cairo, 11 June 2018 – We are extremely alarmed by latest escalation of violence in Yemen, most recently in the port city of Hodeidah, one of the country’s most densely populated areas.  In the event... Read more

21 May 2018
News

In war-torn Yemen, a devastating childbirth injury, then a glimpse of hope

SANA’A, Yemen – Shaima, 20, has experienced more than her share of suffering. Displaced by conflict, she was married off at 14, then endured pregnancy after pregnancy before her body was ready. She... Read more

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