Press Releases

22 September 2016

Over $2 billion in pledges for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health and Wellbeing

Twenty-three new commitments, corresponding to over $2 billion in pledges for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and wellbeing were announced on the margins of the UN General Assembly.
22 March 2016

Secretary-General, in Message for World Tuberculosis Day, Says Total Victory over Epidemic Will Require United Front

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Tuberculosis Day, observed on 24 March.
15 March 2016

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented today with Delivering for Girls and Women Award

On the occasion of the Commission on the Status of Women’s annual meeting and during an Every Woman Every Child event at UN headquarters, Women Deliver presented the first-ever ‘Delivering for Girls and Women’ award to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
21 January 2016

UN Secretary-General Announces Members of the High-Level Advisory Group for Every Woman Every Child

Group includes leaders from governments, business community, philanthropists, young people’s network and civil society to champion women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health.
03 December 2015

Essential Health Needs of Women Often Neglected in Assistance after Natural Disasters, Conflicts

UNFPA’s State of World Population 2015 sets new agenda for humanitarian response to step up support for millions left behind.
29 September 2015

New Global Partnership, RHD Action, Calls on World Leaders to End Rheumatic Heart Disease

RHD Action, a new global movement to end rheumatic heart disease (RHD), launched today on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.