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Preventable maternal deaths down from 2000, but rate of progress at a crawl

"The decline is far from adequate,” said UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem.

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Joy after a frightening preterm delivery in Liberia

Out of nine pregnancies, Anna Bondo had suffered seven stillbirths, each one a crushing heartbreak. Last month,...

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Urgent support needed for violence-affected women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Thousands of women and girls have been subjected to gender-based violence.

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In this Comorian community, an ambulance horn is music to one’s ears

Who has not heard the horn of the Ouzioini ambulance? The ambulance’s distinctive low-pitched horn is a welcome sound...

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Updates

Registration opens for the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25

The Summit will be a watershed moment for women and girls everywhere.

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Video

Twenty-five years ago, the world made a promise

Twenty-five years ago, the world was a different place. Incredible progress has been made in so many areas.

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Conference

Nairobi Summit

From 12-14 November, UNFPA and the Government of Kenya are convening the Nairobi Summit, a high-level conference to...

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UNFPA Transformative Results

END MATERNAL DEATH

Since 1990, maternal death has declined by 44 per cent. Still, some 830 women...Read more

Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births

Actual
UNFPA vision
SDG Target

Assuming all the maternal deaths are preventable

END UNMET NEED FOR FAMILY PLANNING

Family planning is central to women’s empowerment and sustainable...Read more

Unmet need for family planning

Actual
UNFPA vision
Projection

Women with unmet need are those, aged 15-49, who are married or in a union and want to stop or delay childbearing but are not using any method of contraception

END GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND ALL HARMFUL PRACTICES

Violence against women and girls remains a global pandemic. One in...Read more

Ending Child Marriage

Per cent of girls married/in union before age 15

Per cent of girls married/in union after age 15 but before age 18

Actual
UNFPA vision
SDG Target

Actual
UNFPA vision
SDG Target

ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND HARMFUL PRACTICES

Violence against women and girls remains a global pandemic. One in...Read more

Global prevalence of female genital mutilation

Actual
UNFPA vision
SDG Target

ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND HARMFUL PRACTICES

Violence against women and girls remains a global pandemic. One in...Read more

Prevalence of recent intimate partner violence

UNFPA vision
SDG Target

Per cent of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months

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