reproductive health

A midwife performs house calls in a conflict-affected village in Yemen. Maternal health services are being rolled back amid funding shortages.
© UNFPA Yemen

Life and death for Yemen’s women and girls, as funding evaporates

30 May 2020
Health

In mid-May, just as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Yemen, funding for UNFPA’s life-saving reproductive health services dried up. The agency has been forced to suspend the provision of reproductive healthcare in 140 out of the 180 health facilities, it supports, meaning only 40 now remain.

 

The Human Rights Council, Geneva (file photo, May 2018)
UN Photo/Elma Okic

US states ‘manipulating’ COVID-19 pandemic to restrict abortion access, rights experts charge

27 May 2020
Human Rights

Independent UN human rights experts fear that some authorities in the United States are using the COVID-19 pandemic to restrict access to abortion, with at least eight states suspending procedures deemed medically unnecessary.