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Message of UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin World Humanitarian Day, 19 August 2016
This World Humanitarian Day, we call for global solidarity and stand together with everyone affected by crisis. We unite as one humanity. We share... Read more
Statement of the UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, for International Youth Day
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, celebrates International Youth Day by reaffirming and recognizing the central role of young people in... Read more
Saving the lives of Syrian women and adolescent girls
Across Syria, the biggest humanitarian and refugee crisis of our time in the region, the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA- Syria continues 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
Syrian Girl Bags UNFPA Social Innovation Grant For Online Learning Platform for Arabic ‘Coding’
Leen Darwish, 23 years, is like a Syrian girl next door, except that she has dreams to teach computing and software coding in Arabic language to thousands of Syrians and Arabs in general as a ticket... Read more
My only dream is to give my daughter a life that was stolen from me
Syria, Damascus Countryside -- “I was given life again.” This is how Ranim, a divorced 16 year-old girl and a violence survivor from Syria, said to express her status when she met Dr. Amal at the... Read more
Bringing new hope in lives of Syrian women survivors of family-based violence
Damascus, Syria -- One look at Amal*, 46, and you can tell that she is feeling miserable inside. The red and blue bruises on her face provide a glimpse of her battered psychological state. She feels... Read more
Mine explosion hits Mariam and her 16 weeks old baby
Al-Hassakeh, North-Eastern Syria -- During a journey trying to cross the borders by foot from her home at al-Hole village, in Al-Hassakeh, at the north-eastern part of Syria close to the Iraqi... Read more