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World Humanitarian Day: Celebrating the Real-life Heroes Battling COVID-19, Crises and Disasters
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Humanitarian Day Saving lives has never been more harrowing. Last year saw attacks against aid workers surpass all previous records,... Read more
Youth leading the way in COVID-19 solutions
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanen, International Youth Day As we mark International Youth Day in the midst of a global pandemic, we witness how young people are taking action to... Read more
Boosting the health workforce in Tanzania
Tanzania’s health workforce got a boost recently as 575 volunteer health workers – physicians, doctors, nurses and environmental health officers – were recruited into the formal health system for a... Read more
Dignity Kits bring hygiene supplies to quarantined women in Zanzibar
Bikombo* says she was lucky she had the chance to gather some of the things she would need for her stay at the government-run quarantine facilities in Mtoni – on the outskirts of Zanzibar Town – when... Read more
Peace in the home: safeguarding the health and rights of women and girls – even during COVID-19
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Population Day Peace in our world begins with peace in the home, as the United Nations Secretary-General stated in his call for a... Read more
Sustaining access to reproductive health services during the pandemic
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Officially, the COVID-19 pandemic has sickened 11 million people and left more than half a million dead. But the full toll of this catastrophe has been incalculably greater... Read more
Stepping up support to the National Child Helpline #116
C- Sema – Kiswahili for speak – runs the National Child Helpline #116 – a toll-free service that is available across all networks in Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar. The service is a lifeline for... Read more
Faith leaders at the forefront of COVID-19 protection efforts in Zanzibar
Ms. Amina Khalfan, a religious leader and member of West B Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Action Group in Zanzibar, was one of 30 religious leaders who agreed to play a key role in the battle against... Read more
Confronting the silent and endemic crisis of harmful practices
30 June 2020, NEW YORK – Every year, millions of girls are subjected to practices that harm them physically and emotionally, with the full knowledge and consent of their families, friends and... Read more
Five things you didn’t know about practices that harm girls
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Every day, hundreds of thousands of girls around the world are harmed physically or psychologically, with the full knowledge and consent of their families, friends and... Read more