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A dignified response to Cyclone Pam for women
Monday, 6 April 2015, 11:32 am | UNFPA
UNFPA Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu (March 28, 2015) - Asked how she felt about receiving a basic dignity kit at her Cyclone Pam-ravaged township within the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila, Gertrude Venabelt said without hesitation: I feel loved. More >>
Cyclone Pam evacuation centers home to new-born
Friday, 3 April 2015, 11:21 am | UNFPA
UNFPA Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu (March 25, 2015) - As her family settled into one of the classrooms at Freswota Primary School in Cyclone Pam-stricken Port Vila, in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, Meri Yalu was more troubled by an impending ... More >>
Cyclone Pam drives up contraceptive demand in Vanuatu
Wednesday, 1 April 2015, 3:38 pm | UNFPA
UNFPA Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu (March 31, 2015) - Katherine Silas grimaces but one is not entirely sure if it is in response to pain or merely the sight of the needle being used to implant the long-term contraceptive, jadelle, a week after Cyclone ... More >>
Midwives fight Cyclone Pam fear for gift of life
Thursday, 26 March 2015, 4:00 pm | UNFPA
Anne Kalo is a delightful lover of life, punctuating her description of birthing four babies including twins and one by emergency cesarean as Cyclone Pam bore down on the flooded Maternity Ward of the Port Vila Central Hospital in the Pacific island ... More >>
Cyclone Pam cripples sexual and reproductive health services
Thursday, 19 March 2015, 10:30 pm | UNFPA
Continuing telecommunication challenges and substantial infrastructural damage to medical facilities mean women are not aware which services are still available or accessible. More >>
Ensuring coverage for women and girls after Cyclone Pam
Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 8:53 pm | UNFPA
UNFPA PACIFIC, Suva (March 17, 2014) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pacific Sub-Regional Office (PSRO) has committed up to $35 million VATU and will provide essential emergency reproductive health supplies towards the United Nations ... More >>
Women should not die giving life
Sunday, 11 May 2014, 4:50 pm | UNFPA
UNFPA Pacific, May 11, 2014 - Whatever you've decided will fill your current 24 hours, 800 women will die within that same hour from pregnancy or childbirth complications; that’s 33 women dying every hour from conditions that could be prevented. More >>
Investing in Reproductive Health
Wednesday, 8 January 2014, 3:54 pm | UNFPA
UNFPA Pacific, Suva (January 08, 2014) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pacific Sub-Regional Office (PSRO) on Wednesday affirmed its support towards the efforts of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Women and Poverty Alleviation to ensure ... More >>
Sport for Progress
Tuesday, 24 December 2013, 2:14 pm | UNFPA
UNFPA Pacific, Suva (December 24, 2013) - We have all seen the uniting power of sport; it is indiscriminate and its tentacles reach across ethnic, religious and age groups, or however else society has compartmentalized your world. More >>
The right to plan
Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 5:04 pm | UNFPA
At some point of her life, a woman will confront questions that the majority of members of our communities assume is a given – whether she wants to have children and if yes, at what intervals would she want them in, assuming she wants to have more than ... More >>
The Pathway to Human-Centred Development
Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 10:05 am | UNFPA
Full enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights can mean the difference between life and death for hundreds of thousands of women and adolescent girls: the difference between dying during pregnancy or childbirth from preventable causes and ... More >>
Dignity under attack: Violence against women
Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 5:23 pm | UNFPA
November 25 (yesterday) marked the beginning of 16 days of activism against the violence perpetrated on women. The movement does not, as some have argued, dismiss the violence perpetrated by women or violence inflicted on other genders. More >>
Girls have choices
Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 11:07 am | UNFPA
Girls and women need to know that they have choices and not knowing is very unfair on them, 15-year-old Jai Narayan College fourth former Zara Dean said passionately after participating in the launch of the United Nations Population Fund flagship ... More >>
