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Menstruation is not a girls' or women’s issue – it’s a human rights issue

“My periods are a nightmare,” Nyanjuma Galoth, 20, told UNFPA at a civilian protection camp in South Sudan.

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5 ways female genital mutilation undermines the health of women and girls

Girls and women who undergo FGM face a range of serious health risks – from potentially fatal bleeding to childbirth...

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A long road to safety, healing for refugee mothers in Iraq

"I felt the world just stopped and the few minutes that passed felt like an eternity. I couldn’t feel my heart...

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Ending obstetric fistula: Devastating and preventable childbirth injury continues to haunt women

Despite her best efforts, the delivery went worse than she could have imagined. Ms. Yakobo ended up with an obstetric...

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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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Reproductive rights take centre stage at London Fashion Week

Irish designer Natalie B Coleman’s collection Sisters highlights women's reproductive health and rights.

Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA's Executive Director, met with community role models in Kibera, the largest informal settlement in Kenya. © UNFPA

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Leaders call for securing sexual and reproductive health and rights in Kenya’s largest slum

“When sleeping women awake, mountains move,” said Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA’s Executive Director, quoting a Kenyan...

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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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