UNFPA Bangladesh

Ensuring rights and choices for all

We promise to continue to strive for achieving the UNFPA Mandates in Bangladesh in 2019. Happy New Year 2019
Happy New Year 2019
No one left behind
Achieve SDGs by increasing institutional delivery and reducing maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity
#HearMeToo
Solution Fair (সমাধান মেলা), as a part of the 16 Days of Activism campaign
We Shall Overcome
UNFPA Representative Asa Torkelsson visits refugee camps
Refugee Camp Art Competition
UNFPA’s success in saving mothers and babies’ lives in Bangladesh: 1,143 Midwives deployed to government health facilities
One year on - UNFPA's response to the Rohingya crisis
Facing the challenges to ensure full range of life saving services for the newborns and mothers, Dr. Natalia Kanem
UNFPA Executive Director in Cox's Bazar
Dr Natalia Kanem interview on Frankly Speaking by Zahirul Alam - NTV Bangladesh
WATCH: Peaceful Gardens - Women Friendly Spaces
UNFPA Tom Tom Ambulances for Pregnant Women
Where men can't go
Women Friendly Spaces are serving women and girls in the Rohingya refugee crisis
State of World Population Report 2017
Generation Breakthrough
Shifting young people's attitudes on gender equality, gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive health

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24 December 2018

UN Team Visit Tangail Brothel as a Part of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign against Gender-Based Violence

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 2015-2016[1], an estimated 102,260 female sex workers (FSWs) exist in the sex industry. Approximately, around 5000 female sex workers are living in 11 existing brothels in the country. In the year 2000, The Bangladesh High Court ruled that ‘prostitution’ as a livelihood is

13 December 2018

16 Days of Activism

Across the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, UNFPA and its partners coordinated activities as part of the UN's 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. With support from donors and partners Action Aid Bangladesh and GUK, a football tournament was organised with teams representing each of the camps. The football

18 November 2018

USING DATA TO HELP ELIMINATE GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

A new Gender-Based Violence Information Management System will use data to help provide better services for women and girls in the Rohingya refugee camps. In the Rohingya refugee camps, UNFPA has nineteen Women Friendly Spaces where case managers and case workers help women who have experienced sexual violence or trauma