Today is a special day for women, girls, men and boys in Libya! In partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs and the PSS team, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is proud to jointly launch with H.E. Ms. Fadi Mansour Al-Shafai, Minister of the Ministry of Social Affairs, and Mr. Abdulmuniam Karkam, Director of PSS Team, the first psychosocial hotline in Libya with the free number 1417. This joint init...

Tripoli - Monday 25 November 2019 Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and it also remarks the beginning of the 16 days of activism against Gender Based Violence, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) together with partners’ will be addressing gender-based violence in Libya, work to raise awareness and to put an end to violence against women and girls, by focusing on this...

Twenty-five years ago, at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP) in Cairo, the world leaders adopted a revolutionary Programme of Action and called for all people to have access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including family planning methodologies, safe pregnancy and childbirth services. Today, in Tripoli, conflict and a strained health system put mothers and newborns’ lives a...