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23 June 2020
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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

10 June 2020
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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

29 May 2020
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A midwife performs house calls in a conflict-affected village in Yemen. Maternal health services are being rolled back amid funding shortages. © UNFPA Yemen

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.

23 May 2020
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A woman recovers from fistula treatment surgery in Yemen. Obstetric fistula almost entirely preventable; its persistence is a sign of global social injustice. © UNFPA Yemen

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.

20 May 2020
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A woman at a safe space in Raymah sews face masks for her community. © RFDH/UNFPA

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

10 May 2020
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A woman and her newborn at a UNFPA-supported health centre. More than 100 health facilities are at risk of closing. © UNFPA Yemen

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

6 May 2020
Press Release

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

24 April 2020
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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

9 April 2020
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After a complicated delivery, triplet boys were discharged in good health. Distance, conflict and the threat of the global pandemic kept their mother from seeking maternal health care. © BFD/UNFPA Yemen

Delivering triplets in war-torn Yemen, under shadow of pandemic

“We also kept hearing on the television about a new virus called corona that is killing people in many countries,...

9 April 2020
Statement

Regional Directors of UNDP, UN Women, UNFPA and ESCWA open letter to Arab region governments

At the beginning of this week, the United Nations Secretary-General issued an appeal to stop violence everywhere including violence in the home. As Directors of the four United Nations Agencies who... Read more

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