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UNFPA supports Turkey’s COVID-19 response in the remotest areas
Since 2020, the world has been struggling with one of the most infectious viruses in world history, the COVID-19 pandemic. While the virus has become... Read more
World Population Day 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic may have lasting consequences on the world population. During the pandemic, disruptions in accessing reproductive health... Read more
Women and Youth Support Center raises hope for refugees
Hosting the largest number of refugees in the world, Turkey provides shelter to approximately 4 million refugees, 3.6 million of whom are Syrians... Read more
5 Women, 5 Stories...
Young, elderly, poor, wealthy, migrant, refugee, educated, uneducated, with disabilities or white collar… Physical, sexual, psychological or economic... Read more
In crisis after crisis, mothers around the world are asked to do the impossible
UNITED NATIONS, New York ‒ “We were all alone, all the time,” Tatuli Paghava, 31, told UNFPA in Georgia, explaining how the COVID-19 pandemic has... Read more
The Story of Umut Midwife: Bringing New Lives to the World During the Pandemic
In helping ease new life into the world, midwives continue to work with devotion and sacrifice by putting their own health at risk in COVID-19 times... Read more
New UNFPA report sounds the alarm on global shortage of 900,000 midwives
Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, and newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year...
Distinguished Actress Hazal Kaya became the new Honorary Ambassador of UNFPA Turkey!
The press launch was held with the participation of UNFPA Turkey Representative Hassan Mohtashami, Deputy Representative Zeynep Başarankut Kan and... Read more
My Body Is My Own: 2021 State of World Population Report is published!
Nearly half of all women are denied their bodily autonomy, says new United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, report, My Body is My Own. Violations... Read more
UNFPA and SGDD-ASAM support refugees with disabilities together with the European Union
In Turkey, 450,000 refugees live with disabilities. Many of them don’t have enough information about available services or cannot access them. The... Read more