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Development futures series: Secondary impacts of COVID-19: Closing civic space in fragile contexts Format In 2020, some already fragile states saw human rights weakened COVID-19 restrictions contributed to an increase in political violence in some nations, and provided an opportunity for autocratic regimes to further erode human rights and democratic institutions says a new paper. There was an increase in protests and riots in the majority of fragile statesin 2020 compared to 2019, according ...

Date Time COVID-19 response utilized to erode democracy in some countries Life with COVID-19 in Gaza. While the socio-economic and health impacts of the pandemic have grabbed most of the headlines, the virus has also enabled repression and the denial of human rights. COVID-19 restrictions contributed to an increase in political violence in some nations, and provided an opportunity for autocratic regimes to further erode human rights and democratic institutions says a new paper. There was an i...

Date Time COVID-19 response eroding democracy & contributing to increased political violence Life with COVID-19 in Gaza. While the socio-economic and health impacts of the pandemic have grabbed most of the headlines, the virus has also enabled repression and the denial of human rights. COVID-19 restrictions contributed to an increase in political violence in some countries, and provided an opportunity for autocratic regimes to further erode human rights and democratic institutions says a new p...

English News and Press Release on Indonesia about Contributions, Health, Epidemic and more; published on 04 Jun 2021 by UNFPA

Country Director, ILO, Bangladesh The ILO Convention Eliminating Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (C190) and its accompanying Recommendation (R206) went through a long process and it culminated in the adoption of the convention in the ILO Centenary Conference in 2019. The Bangladesh government voted in favour of the adoption of the Convention C190 and Recommendation R206 and we are optimistic about the ratification of C190 by the government of Bangladesh. Workers and Employers organ...

Vanguard News FGM not a joke, UNFPA tells Govs On By Luminous Jannamike – Abuja The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has told state governors not to take the lingering practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) as a joke. So, the global agency asked them to step up, within their domains, funding and sensitization programmes on the seriousness of the practice as an act of gender-based violence. Dr. Zubaida Abubakar, UNFPA’s National Programme Analyst for Adolescent Sexual Reproducti...

Female Genital Mutilation not a joke, UNFPA tells Govs On By Luminous Jannamike, Abuja The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), on Tuesday, told state governors not to treat the lingering practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) with levity. As the UN agency also charged them to step up, within their states, more funding and sensitization programmes on the seriousness of the practice as an act of gender-based violence. Dr Zubaida Abubakar, UNFPA’s National Programme Analyst for Adolesc...

Ensuring ANC services stressed to prevent obstetric fistula 725 RANGPUR, Dec 20, 2020 (BSS) – Experts at a workshop have stressed ensuring antenatal care (ANC) services to prevent obstetric fistula, a devastating injury in which an abnormal opening forms between a woman’s bladder and vagina, resulting in urinary incontinence. They viewed this at the divisional workshop on the UNFPA-funded ‘End Obstetric Fistula in Rangpur Division: Annual Progress and Highlights’ held at LABM Hospital i...

The United Nations Population Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), and education experts have called for equal opportunities for girls and women to access quality education in order to actualise their potentials in the society, stating that 9.5million girls aged between 10 and 17 were out-of-school in the country. Speaking at a virtual conference with the theme, “Girl Child Education in Nigeria”, organised by EVA as part of the 9JAYouthTalk webinar series recently, they, however, urged y...

The House of Representatives, yesterday, passed into law the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) N453.2billion budget for 2020. The sum covers the capital, personnel expenditure, and other costs of the commission for the period ending on March 31, 2021. The passage of the budget was sequel to the consideration of the report by the House Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission at the Committee of Supply. Laying the report before the plenary, the Chairman of the Committee on Niger D...