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“I’ve grown a few years in 26 days”: A teenager’s life during wartime

calendar_today01 April 2022

As a youth volunteer helping settle internally displaced persons in Lviv, Viktoria Kravets explains how to fill in residence registration forms. Photo courtesy of Viktoria Kravets
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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem’s Message at the launch of The State of World Population 2022

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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem’s Message at the launch of The State of World Population 2022

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem’s Message at the launch of The State of World Population 2022

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Statement at the launch of The State of World Population 2022

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8 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked

calendar_today05 May 2022

At 14, Dankay Kanu (right, with a mentor from the 2YoungLives NGO, which helps pregnant girls in Sierra Leone continue their education and find employment) got pregnant by an older man who refused to wear a condom then denied paternity. Though she quit school for a time, she has since returned while raising her now-two-year-old son, Ishmael, alone. "To be a mother at this age is not really easy," she said, "but that will enable me to become stronger." @ UNFPA/Michael Duff
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Press release

Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended—a global crisis, says new UNFPA report

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Australia provides UNFPA AUD 8 million to protect Ukrainian women and girls from gender-based violence

calendar_today29 March 2022

With this new contribution, the Australian Government commits to protect women and girls fleeing the war in Ukraine from gender-based violence. © UNFPA Moldova/Eduard Bîzgu
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The US contributes $3.4m to support UNFPA’s response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis

calendar_today25 March 2022

Since the war broke out on 24 February, more than 10 million people have been forced to leave their homes, either internally displaced or to neighbouring countries. Most of the refugees are women with children, and older persons. ©UNFPA Moldova
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UNFPA

Publication date

Mar 2022

Author

UNFPA

Number of pages

160

State of World Population

Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy

An estimated 121 million pregnancies per year take place in the bodies of women who did not choose pregnancy or motherhood, who were not planning to have a child at that time, with that partner, in those circumstances. Nothing is more fundamental to bodily autonomy than the ability to decide whether or not to become pregnant. Yet for too many, the most life-altering reproductive choice is no choice at all.

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