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12 April 2019
Press Release
UNFPA provides hygiene and safety supplies to displaced pregnant women in the BARMM
UNFPA estimates there could be as many as 1,400 pregnant women among the affected population. “Women do not stop getting pregnant or delivering babies just because an emergency…
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10 April 2019
News
UNFPA launches State of World Population Report 2019
Despite remarkable achievements in the past five decades, much more must be done to break the barriers that prevent women, men and couples from fully exercising their reproductive…
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08 March 2019
News
UNFPA Philippines celebrates International Women's Day with Vice President Leni Robredo
To commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is standing in solidarity with everyone who are working tirelessly to address the…
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07 March 2019
News
International Women’s Day Summit 2019: Advancing the Rights and Representation of Filipino Women
As part of a series of events to formally kick things off, SPARK! and the Office of the Vice President, in partnership with the Embassies of Austria and Sweden, the United Nations…
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01 March 2019
News
Don’t Tell Me How To Dress Exhibit at Gateway Mall
Message of UNFPA Philippines Representative Iori Kato Don’t Tell Me How To Dress Exhibit at Gateway Mall MAGANDANG UMAGA PO, SA INYONG LAHAT! …
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25 January 2019
News
Senator Risa Hontiveros joins the United Nations at the Don't Tell Me How to Dress Exhibit
MANILA, Philippines - Challenging the idea that sexual assault is a woman’s fault because of what she wears, UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency…
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03 December 2018
News
UNFPA Representative Iori Kato's speech at the Male Advocates Assembly on Eliminating Gender-Based Violence
We are in the midst of the global campaign of 16 Days of Activism to end gender based violence, from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against…
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20 November 2018
News
Women come together to address gender-based violence in Marawi, Philippines
MARAWI CITY, Philippines – “Many women and girls here were suffering from violence. And the armed conflict made the situation of gender-based violence even…
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07 November 2018
Press Release
In partnership with UNFPA, the Department of Health and Amai Pakpak Medical Center establish a Women and Children Protection Unit in Marawi City
For many women and children, a visit to a health facility may be their first effort to seek help and the only chance to receive support and care, as well as to escape a situation…
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