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20 December 2018
News
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, in Jordan and Seven Circles today announced the winners of their joint “Youth Empowerment Online Cartoon Competition”, which they launched on 1 November in... Read more
29 November 2018
Press Release
On 29 November 2018, the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Sub-Working Group (SGBV SWG) organized a joint event at Ras Al Ain Hangar to celebrate collective efforts to prevent and respond to gender-... Read more
25 November 2018
Press Release
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Jordan today launched the “#SpeakUpJo: 16 Voices on Sexual Harassment” social media campaign to mark this year’s “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-... Read more
1 November 2018
News
The United Nations Population Fund Jordan (UNFPA) and Seven Circles today launched both the Youth Empowerment Online Cartoon Competition, in collaboration with renowned cartoonist Omar Al Abdallat,... Read more
17 October 2018
Press Release
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 17 October 2018--The global trend towards smaller families is a reflection of people making reproductive choices to have as few or as many children as they want, when they... Read more
19 August 2018
Statement
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Humanitarian Day 2018
Women and girls uprooted by war or disaster are at heightened risk of rape, exploitation and abuse. Yet reaching... Read more
11 July 2018
Statement
Statement by Laila Baker, UNFPA Jordan Representative
Fifty years ago, the world declared that “parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and the spacing of... Read more
23 May 2018
Statement
Statement of UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, 23 May 2018
Pregnancy and childbirth should be among the happiest of occasions in a woman’s... Read more
19 April 2018
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AMMAN, Jordan, 19 April 2018 – President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen and First Lady of Austria Doris Schmidauer today visited sites supported by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, in... Read more
7 January 2018
News
AMMAN, Jordan – “I don’t want more kids and I’m afraid to get pregnant,” said Fatima*, a 37-year-old Syrian refugee and mother of six, at a UNFPA-supported clinic in Jordan’s capital, Amman.
But for... Read more