Press Release

UNFPA announces winners of the AccessAbility innovation challenge

21 August 2023

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Resources

The UNFPA We Decide Programme: A Catalyst for Disability Inclusion

Resource date: Jun 2023

Publisher: UNFPA

The We Decide Global Programme is the UNFPA flagship initiative to promote rights and choices for women and young persons with disabilities. This booklet displays the main achievements of the We Decide Programme in catalyzing change for disability inclusion in UNFPA. It presents partners and potential donors with a broad understanding of the programme as well as the opportunities for scaling the work on disability inclusion in order to leave no one behind when it comes to sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Updates

UNFPA supports inclusion through sport at the Special Olympics World Games 2023

07 Aug 2023

Participants at the Special Olympics World Games 2023 in Berlin. © Tilo Wiedensohler/Special Olympics
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Resources

Working together to ensure the right of girls with disabilities to live free from violence

Resource date: May 2023

Publisher: UNICEF, UN Women, WHO, ILO, FAO, UNDP, UNFPA and UNPRPD

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International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2023

09 August 2023

Global

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Resources

Manifesto on Meaningful Youth Engagement for Youth with Disabilities

Resource date: Jul 2023

Publisher: UNFPA

This manifesto discusses the ways in which young people should be involved in decision-making spaces for them to be truly youth-and-disability inclusive. It provides recommendations for both youth and adult stakeholders on how to transform advocacy spaces and shift power dynamics.

Resources

The ABC of Bodily Autonomy for Youth with Disabilities

Resource date: Jul 2023

Publisher: UNFPA

In this publication, we talk about the experience of youth with disabilities and the barriers to accessing SRHR. It also gives us an introduction to tools like the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and to the basic rights necessary to guarantee the bodily autonomy of youth with disabilities.

Publication

Maternal Health Analysis of Women and Girls of African Descent in the Americas

Number of pages: 27

Publication date: 12 Jul 2023

Publisher: UNFPA, UNICEF, UN-Women, PAHO, NBEC

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News

“They have to fight”: People of African descent face deadly, systemic racism and sexism in health sectors across the Americas, UNFPA reports

Dr. Palmer talks with a UNFPA staff member outside the clinic in La Palma, where she makes visits once per month to women in underserved indigenous communities. © UNFPA Costa Rica
  • 12 July 2023
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Press Release

Deadly outcomes: Pregnant Afrodescendent women are abused and neglected due to systemic racism and sexism in health systems across the Americas, new UNFPA report finds

12 July 2023

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