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Ending Gender Imbalances Must Remain International Priority, Says UNFPA’s Asia-Pacific Director
Viet Nam
HANOI—Joint international and national actions to end prenatal sex selection and discrimination against women should remain a priority for all, Nobuko Horibe, the Director of UNFPA’s Asia and Pacific Regional Office,…
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No Direction Home: A Generation Shaped by Life in Dadaab
Kenya
DADAAB, Kenya — Twenty-year-old Aden Ibrahim has never known any home other than an expanding camp refugee camp in a parched landscape once traversed by nomadic camel and goat herders.
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Addressing the Needs of Serbia's Ageing Population
Serbia
BELGRADE, Serbia -- With more than 17 per cent of its citizens being over the age of 65, Serbia's proportion of elderly people is among the highest in the world. In this Balkan nation, as in other countries in the…
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A Week of Progress for Women and Children
NEW YORK — When a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth, a family is devastated and a community suffers an irreplaceable loss.
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Scaling-up Access to Long-term Family Planning Methods in Northern Ethiopia
Ethiopia
ATAYE, Amhara Region, Ethiopia — On eve of Ethiopia's New Year, things are slow at the Ataye Health Centre. But Hanna Kelemework, clad in her white nurse's gown, is expecting clients to show up for family…
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More Bangladeshi Mothers Get Vital Care During Childbirth
Bangladesh
MAULVIBAZAR, Bangladesh — When a woman in labour seeks her help, Kanchan Bala Roy is confident she can oversee a safe delivery. The rural health centre where she works was recently equipped for deliveries, as part of a…
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Midwives Are Key to Safe Deliveries for Afghani Women
Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — Fereshta, 28, repositions herself slowly in her bed at Malalai Hospital, on the western outskirts of Kabul. It is just a day after she has received surgery to repair an obstetric fistula, but…
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Cultural and Human Rights Dimensions of Family Planning in Mozambique
Mozambique
MAPUTO, Mozambique – “We have ten children,” says Silvestre Celestino, 59, proudly, as he works his garden on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique, with his wife, Felizmina.
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Working Against All Odds to Improve Maternal Health in DRC
Democratic Republic of the Congo
BOGA, Democratic Republic of Congo — “My last two children were born on banana leaves, with help from my husband and women in my village,” recalls Antoinette Androsi, 32, who has been displaced by war for over six years…
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Leaders and Health Ministers Strategize Ways to Improve Community-level Access to Maternal Health
MANHASSET, New York — Health ministers from countries with the highest number of maternal deaths gathered here with heads of several UN agencies and key partners to discuss action plans for improving maternal health.
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Natalie Imbruglia Rocks to a New Passion
Australia
<p>WASHINGTON, D. C. — Australian pop star Natalie Imbruglia doesn't mean to leave you with the wrong impression.</p>
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Dynamism of Young People Cited as a Cause for Optimism in a World of 7 Billion
UNITED NATIONS – Participants at the launch of the 7 Billion Actions campaign here today cited the dynamism of young people, especially when connected through social media, as a cause for optimism in the face of the…
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