22 May 2013 - In the News
NIZIP, Turkey — More has to be done to ensure the health and wellbeing of women and children affected by the Syrian conflict, said Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UNFPA, on a recent visit to Turkey's Nizip refugee camp, about 40km east of the southern city of Gaziantep.
One of Turkey's newest camps, Nizip houses some 10,000 refugees, or "guests" as the government prefers to call them, in white canvas tents and containers arrayed in neat numbered rows along the rocky, sun-bleached banks of the Euphrates.
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21 May 2013 - Dispatch
UNFPA’s office in Kosovo marked the International Day of Families on 15 May by providing basic health care services in the capital, Prishtina.
More than 300 citizens of all ages made use of the opportunity to consult family medicine doctors and undergo free medical check-ups in two tents that were set up in Prishtina’s main square.
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14 May 2013 - Press Release
ALMATY, 13 May 2013 - Some 40 emergency management, cartography and statistics experts from the South Caucasus and Central Asia have gathered in Almaty to learn and share best practices in information management in emergencies.
The four-day workshop will allow the participants from emergency situations ministries, cartography and geodesy departments and statistics agencies to use international best practices and tools for disaster mitigation planning and emergency assessment.
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10 May 2013 - Dispatch
It is the responsibility of religious leaders to ensure that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is correctly interpreted, Mufti Naim Ternava, the head of Kosovo’s Islamic Community, said at a UNFPA roundtable on the role of Islam in preventing gender-based violence on 8 May.
“Men and women are equal according to the Quran, and violence against women has no basis in Islam,” said Mufti Ternava, stressing that verse 34, which describes the relation between men and women, needs to be interpreted in this sense.
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10 May 2013 - Dispatch
Nearly 93,000 women will be missing in Armenian society by 2060 if the country’s high pre-natal sex selection rate remains unchanged, according to projections included in a new report released by UNFPA on 2 May.
With 114 boys born for every 100 girls in 2012, Armenia has one of the highest sex imbalance levels in the world, surpassed only by China (118) and Azerbaijan (116). The imbalance is particularly dramatic for third births: the record level of 173 sons born for every 100 daughters has no known equivalent anywhere else in the world.
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10 May 2013 - Dispatch
It is the responsibility of religious leaders to ensure that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is correctly interpreted, Mufti Naim Ternava, the head of Kosovo’s Islamic Community, said at a UNFPA roundtable on the role of Islam in preventing gender-based violence on 8 May.
“Men and women are equal according to the Quran, and violence against women has no basis in Islam,” said Mufti Ternava, stressing that verse 34, which describes the relation between men and women, needs to be interpreted in this sense.
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07 May 2013 - Dispatch
ISTANBUL – Health ministry officials and civil society representatives from 19 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia developed action plans for introducing a “total market approach” to ensuring universal access to modern contraceptives and other reproductive health commodities at two meetings, in Sarajevo and Kyiv, in April.
The meetings, organized together with together with PATH, a global health organization, marked a major step towards establishing the total market approach in the region, as the ministry officials committed to finalizing and implementing the action plans.
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02 May 2013 - Dispatch
As the national consultations in Kazakhstan on the post 2015 development agenda are drawing to a close, UNFPA increased its efforts to engage young people in the process.
In a lecture for students at the Kazakhstan National University on 11 April, Nikolai Botev, the Director of UNFPA’s Sub-regional office in Almaty, spoke about the international development debate since the 1990s. He stressed the importance of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, calling it “a landmark forum, which not only resulted in a paradigm shift in the way the international community views the interlink between population and development, but also laid the ground for the emergence later of the Millennium Development Goals”.
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