News
News
6 November 2017
Press Release
The Australian Government has committed AUD 1.5 million to scale up UNFPA’s humanitarian response in Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh, amid the Rohingya refugee crisis. Funds will strengthen sexual... Read more
28 October 2017
Statement
28 October, 2017 - COX’s BAZAR, Bangladesh - UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has long supportedthe Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on strengthening rights-based... Read more
27 October 2017
Press Release
26 October 2017, Dhaka – UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund in Bangladesh, and Sweden, represented by Sida, signed a landmark grant agreement, launching the “Strengthening Midwifery-led... Read more
17 October 2017
Press Release
The State of World Population 2017:
Unchecked inequality and failure to protect the rights of poorest women could undermine peace and world’s development goals,
new UNFPA report warns
• Only about... Read more
12 October 2017
News
Veronica Pedrosa is with UNFPA's humanitarian response team in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Enter with respect and curiosity, and you will be richly rewarded, but only if you’re a woman. Sorry men, but... Read more
11 October 2017
News
Published 11 October 2017 on the International Day of the Girl, poignant stories from the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
Veronica Pedrosa is part of UNFPA's humanitarian response team in Cox's... Read more
12 September 2017
Press Release
US$ 13 million urgently needed to meet rapidly growing needs amid a massive humanitarian crisis
12 September 2017, Dhaka - As thousands upon thousands of desperate Rohingya civilians continue to... Read more
30 August 2017
News
28 August 2017 - UNFPA Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Parliament Secretariat jointly organized a local-level consultation meeting at Pirganj Upazila of Rangpur District on "Reducing Maternal Mortality... Read more
24 July 2017
News
Generation Breakthrough is UNFPA’s flagship project on adolescents and youth.
Started in 2012 with generous support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the project engages around 140... Read more
12 July 2017
Written by Yoriko Yasukawa, UNFPA's Asia-Pacific Regional Director, this article was originally published by the World Economic Forum.
Nestled in a remote forest near the border with Vietnam, the... Read more