Shinning the spotlight on women rights in Timor-Leste: UNFPA bridging the gap in providing essential services to displaced women amidst COVID-19 - Timor-Leste reliefweb.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reliefweb.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ACTIVISTS have urged the government to step up the fight against Gender Based Violence (GBV), especially in the Lake Zone where the problem is now becoming serious.
It is reported that some families in Lake Zone have come up with the malpractice of abandoning their female children in thick forests after becoming pregnant before undergoing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a practice which is also banned in the country.
A-16 year old girl (name withheld) is among the victims, who was recently found abandoned in Serengeti Forest in Tarime District, thanks to the Association for Termination of Female Genital Mutilation (ATFGM) officials and Police officers who came to her quick rescue.
WFP Eswatini Country Brief, February 2021
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US$ 757,305 cash-based transfers made in February 2021
US$ 5.4 million six-month (April–September 2021) net funding requirements
82,548 people assisted with cash-based transfers in February 2021
Operational Updates
• WFP provides social safety nets for 55,000 orphans and vulnerable children under 5 years at the 1,700 Neighbourhood Care Points (NCPs) in Eswatini through access to food and basic social services. Due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and associated containment measures, food distributions at the NCPs have been suspended as of February 2021. WFP will resume food distributions in March.
• WFP, together with the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Save the Children and ADRA, are currently training NCP caregivers and smallholder famers in conventional agriculture. This concept was adopted in Zimbabwe and its main aim is to promote local food production, maximize harvest in a small piece of land, and empow
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President Joe Biden announced today that the United States will end support for Saudi-led offensives in Yemen, citing a war that has “created a humanitarian and strategic catastrophe” in what is the poorest Arab country.
In remarks delivered at the State Department, President Biden called for a cease-fire and to restore “long dormant” peace talks. He also said the U.S. would no longer provide “relevant” arm sales, without naming countries, but would still support Saudi Arabia’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity.” Along with the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia has led a coalition against Yemen’s current leadership, an Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group.