Indeed Dr Matshidiso Moeti FGM medicalization doesn’t make it right. It is a harmful practice that must stop #EndFGM #EndFGM 220

Every woman has the right to a safe, healthy birth.

We're fighting to #EndFistula through:

🔸Advocacy
📚Education
🏥 Accessible quality healthcare

#ObstetricFistula

To #EndGBV , men need to:

📚Be educated on consent & healthy relationships.

🧍‍♂️Stand up to disrespect & sexism.

🎗️Support & not judge survivors.

#EndGBV | #EndFGM

🌏Today on the #EarthDay , delegates from 174 countries gather in #Ottawa to negotiate a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty to #BeatPlasticPollution . Our GPAP team is on the ground, sharing our experience of mobilizing global and national plastic action partnerships
UN Environment Programme #INC4 #PlasticAction

It’s #EarthDay what have you done today to save our only 🌎? I signed the petition to support the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty
C’est le #JourDeLaTerre qu’avez vous fait aujourd’hui pour sauver notre seule 🌎? J’ai signé la pétition pour supporter le #GlobalPlasticsTreaty

🗓️Save the date! Tuesday, 23 April

Join UNFPA Chief of Population & Development Priscilla Idele, PhD alongside experts from UNICEF, UN Women, & UN Human Rights, to discuss UN 2.0's role in accelerating progress towards #GenderEquality .

Register now: bit.ly/3QeQ3i3

Amidst the rising tides of #ClimateChange , know that your feelings of climate anxiety are shared by many 🧡

This is why we need collective action to realize a sustainable future.

On #EarthDay , tell us what helps you deal with climate anxiety or how you’re taking #ClimateAction .

On #EarthDay , we must stand for our planet.

A planet threatened by climate change, by pollution, by biodiversity loss.

A planet that needs to be rescued.

So we must unite.

And we must mobilize all our efforts for #ClimateAction .

« Nous ne pouvons pas façonner un avenir pour nos petits-enfants avec un système construit pour nos grands-parents ». António Guterres

Le Sommet de l’avenir tracera la voie d'une coopération mondiale plus efficace pour résoudre les défis d'aujourd'hui & préserver l’avenir.

What a pleasure meeting with Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda Deputy Executive Director UN Women . Looking forward to working closely with you @unfpa

Dans le cadre des assemblées du Printemps du FMI et de la Banque Mondiale, la délégation sénégalaise a participé à la table ronde modérée par l’envoyé spécial du Pacte de Paris pour les Peuples et la Planète 4P, M. Macky Sall, ancien Président du Sénégal. Entre autres

#Gambia and #Senegal are two countries with the same people. Proud to have welcomed Bassirou Diomaye Faye together with my colleagues from the Diplomatic Corps Mandisa Mashologu #kebetu

“Female genital mutilation [FGM] is a human rights violation.”

Dr. Natalia Kanem /she/her/ella/ has expressed her alarm at efforts to repeal the ban on FGM in the #Gambia , and similar efforts in other countries.

See why this would be devastating for women and girls: unf.pa/rfg

#EndFGM

❗STATEMENT ❗by Executive Director on efforts to repeal the ban on female genital mutilation in The Gambia
Read the full statement 👇
unf.pa/3UotYPF

230 MILLION+ girls & women have endured #FGM 🌍 This is NOT okay🙅‍♀️

UNFPA ED Dr. Natalia Kanem /she/her/ella/ stands firm against repeal efforts in #TheGambia 'Let us not rest until every woman and girl has the right to live a healthy, empowered, and full life'

unfpa.org/press/statemen…
Rose Sarr

No woman should die while giving life!

Let UNFPA explain why the world must sustain the #ThreadsOfHope and end inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights: unf.pa/toh

#ICPD30 | #GlobalGoals

Ending inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights benefits all of humanity.

Let UNFPA explain why the world must recommit to accelerating progress and build on the #ThreadsOfHope we have seen over the last 30 years: unf.pa/toh

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem /she/her/ella/ warns that legalizing 'FGM in The Gambia would deprive women and girls of their rights and be an unprecedented step backwards'

Read her full statement ⤵️
unf.pa/4aZIUKt

#EndFGM220

Leave no one behind!

Turning the clock back to legalize #FGM in the Gambia would deprive women and girls of their rights and be an unprecedented step backwards.

Female genital mutilation is a human rights violation, and culture and religion can never be used to justify it: unf.pa/rfg