The #Paris2024 Olympic Games are the first to reach gender parity, with equal numbers of male and female athletes. Together we can go Faster, Higher, Stronger to make #GenderEquality a reality 💪🏾 🎨 via UN Women #GlobalGoals
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
International Affairs
New York, NY 718,891 followers
Ensuring rights and choices for all since 1969
About us
UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.
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https://www.unfpa.org
External link for United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- Industry
- International Affairs
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1969
- Specialties
- Population and development strategies, Responding to the AIDS epidemic, Gender equality and women's empowerment, Culturally sensitive human rights-based approaches, Supporting adolescents and youth, and Assisting in emergencies
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605 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10158, US
Employees at United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Updates
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⚠️ Global overlapping crises are worsening gender equality and health disparities. #StandUp4HumanRights and join global leaders speaking out through The Lancet to call for collective action to ensure #HealthForAll: https://unf.pa/mco #GlobalGoals
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While this #Olympics will be the first to reach full gender parity, other advances have also come to light. See how athletes are breaking the taboo about #menstruation: https://unf.pa/msb via Paris 2024
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“It wasn’t just health care. There were housing and employment issues, and a lot of violence.” See how the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)A is supporting Beka’s work to make sexual and reproductive health accessible to #LGBTQIA people in #Georgia: https://unf.pa/gla #GlobalGoals
In Georgia, an LGBTQIA advocate making HIV prevention and health care accessible for all
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💯 Dr. Natalia Kanem! The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director is joining advocates around the world to speak out against female genital mutilation (FGM). You can too. Join us and take action to #EndFGM: https://unf.pa/fgm #WednesdayWisdom #GlobalGoals
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“With what I’ve been through, I’d rather have died.” Women and girls in #Haiti face daily horrors due to ongoing gang violence. 🎥 Hear Esther* tell her terrifying story and see how the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting the care she's receiving. *Name changed for protection #ENDViolence
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👜 Sewing bags 🍕 Making pizza 🧁 Baking pastries With support from the United Nations, displaced women in the #Philippines are developing new skills and earning their own income: https://unf.pa/fbb via UN News
From banana bread to pineapple pizzas: Women in the Philippines bake a better future
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🚨 Ensuring that everyone has equal access to essential services without fear, stigma or discrimination is crucial to #endAIDS. Check out the UNAIDS 2024 Global AIDS Update Report to see why protecting human rights protects public health: https://unf.pa/ufr #StandUp4HumanRights #GlobalGoals
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⚠️ Quilombola — members of traditional Black communities in #Brazil — have long struggled with structural discrimination. With support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), they have been included in the national census for the first time. See why counting people as they are is key to a more inclusive world: https://unf.pa/cev #GlobalGoals
Counting every voice: Brazil's census includes quilombola communities for the first time
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🚫 Policymakers can easily ignore certain populations by assuming they don't exist. This can only STOP by counting people as they are. Speak out with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) if you agree governments must commit to gathering inclusive #data: unf.pa/emb #GlobalGoals
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