News

Teenage Pregnancy is Way of Life in Remote Laotian Villages

At 16, Tod is expecting her second child. With limited options for schooling, adolscents in some remote villages in southern Laos routinely marry and start the hard work of raising families by age 14 or 15. Photo©UNFPA AsiaPacific

30 October 2013

Press Release

Reproductive health care critical for pregnant women affected by Typhoon Hagupit

09 December 2014

Resources

Imbalanced Sex Ratio at Birth and Comprehensive Intervention in China : Executive Summary

Resource date: 2007

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

News

Estimated 75,000 pregnant women affected by floods in Pakistan

People seek shelter on higher ground after late monsoon rains caused widespread flooding across Pakistan's Punjab region, affecting more than 2.5 million people, including an estimated 75,000 pregnant women. Photo credit: UNFPA Pakistan/Stenly Sajow

04 November 2014

Resources

Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula and Inequities in Maternal Health

Resource date: 2007

Author: UNFPA. Family Care International

Protecting women post-Haiyan

Published on: 21/06/2014

UNFPA is working with the Philippine National Police to keep women and girls safe after the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan.

From December 2013

News

Ageing population doesn’t have to be a ‘time bomb,’ say experts

The productivity and potential of older people should not be underestimated. A woman with her grandson in China. Photo credit: UNFPA/William A. Ryan

03 September 2014

News

On World Humanitarian Day, celebrating UNFPA’s humanitarian heroes

Catherine Njeri Makumi, a volunteer midwife in Juba, South Sudan. Photo: UNFPA South Sudan/Jaime Jacques

19 August 2014

News

In Thailand's refugee camps, shifting attitudes about sexual and reproductive health

Saba has her blood pressure checked during a consultation with a refugee nurse assistant at a sexual and reproductive health clinic in the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand. Photo credit: UNFPA Thailand

16 September 2014

News

UNFPA responds to needs of 36,000 pregnant women displaced in Pakistan

Thousands of displaced families have been living for years in the Jalozai camp in Pakistan's Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At the end of June, military operations in  North Waziristan sent thousands more families into displacement; most of them fled to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu District. Photo credit: OCHA

28 July 2014

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