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New High-Level Commission will ensure promises made at Nairobi Summit are kept as COVID-19 pandemic threatens to turn back the clock for women’s health and rights
A new High-Level Commission of advocates, experts and activists was established today to help commitments to women’s health and rights made at the... Read more
Celebration of the growing partnership UNFPA-KOICA and Official launch of a three years’ multilateral project.
KIGALI, 25 August 2020 - The United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency , UNFPA, in partnership with Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Rwanda, celebrated on 12th August 2020,... Read more
Pregnancies and Childbirth Don’t Stop for Pandemics
UNFPA supports Personal Protection Equipment to protect front line health workers across Rwanda. In line with UNFPA support to the National COVID19... Read more
Putting the brakes on COVID-19: safeguarding the health and rights of women and girls
COVID-19 pandemic has sickened 11 million people and left more than half a million dead. But the full toll of this catastrophe has been incalculably... Read more
Peace in the home: safeguarding the health and rights of women and girls – even during COVID-19
Peace in our world begins with peace in the home, as the United Nations Secretary-General stated in his call for a global ‘ceasefire’ on gender-based... Read more
Respect. Protect. Fulfill: Three words that can bring real change and real results for women & girls in Rwanda
Respect. Protect. Fulfill: Three words that can bring real change and real results for women & girls in Rwanda Every day, hundreds of thousands of girls around the world are harmed physically or... Read more
Confronting the silent and endemic crisis of harmful practices
Urgent, accelerated action needed to stop female genital mutilation, child marriage, and other practices that harm women and girls, according to new UNFPA report 30 June 2020, NEW YORK—Every year,... Read more
Fostering Innovation to Respond to COVID-19 Challenges in Rwanda
The Innovation Accelerator, first launched in 2016, as an initiative and model aiming at exploring new and engaging ways to tackle pressing sexual... Read more
COVID-19 impact on Persons with Disabilities
Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All
Celebrating midwives, unsung heroes on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day of the Midwife, 5 May 2020