8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices

Published on: 19/04/2023

The world population has reached 8 billion. Are there too many people? Too few? These are the wrong questions.

See how humanity becoming 8 billion strong opens us up to infinite possibilities and find out why UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is making a case for reproductive rights and choices.

News

Population bomb, bust – or boon? New UNFPA report debunks 8 myths about a world of 8 billion

On 15 November, the world’s population reached a landmark 8 billion people. The UNFPA State of World Population 2023 report released today asks what this means for their lives, rights, health and futures? © UNFPA/ARTificial Mind/Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm

19 April 2023

Speech

Closing remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the 56th session of the Commission on Population and Development

14 April 2023

News

Six UNFPA programmes around the world ensuring “health for all” in a world of 8 billion

The 2023 theme for World Health Day, 7 April, is “Health for all”. © WHO

06 April 2023

News

Ensuring critical maternal health services after cyclone Freddy wreaks havoc in Malawi

Cyclone Freddy, the longest-lasting and most travelled tropical storm on record, has caused severe flooding and mudslides, with hundreds killed, health centres submerged and entire villages left stranded as roads and bridges were washed away. © UNFPA/Eldson Chagara

29 March 2023

Speech

Opening remarks, 56th session of the Commission on Population and Development high-level side event “Advancing the ICPD25 commitments in the context of sustainable development using a framework of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice”

10 April 2023

Speech

Opening remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the 56th session of the Commission on Population and Development

10 April 2023

High-level side event to the 56th session of the Commission on Population and Development: “Advancing the ICPD25 commitments in the context of sustainable development using a framework of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice”

10 April 2023

UN Web TV

News

Historic drought in the Horn of Africa: Women and girls fleeing one crisis for another

Rukia Yaroow Ali, 38, was displaced with her nine children by the worst drought that Somalia – and the whole of the Horn of Africa – has seen in 40 years. Here she holds her youngest child outside their shelter at Hagadera refugee camp in Daadab, Garissa county, Kenya. © UNFPA/Luis Tato

24 March 2023

News

Least responsible, hardest hit: New UNFPA brief explores climate change’s disproportionate harm on people of African descent

UNFPA’s new advocacy brief, “In Our Words: Voices of Women of African Descent for Reproductive and Climate Justice”, explores how climate change disproportionately harms women of African descent. © UNFPA Brasil/Eduardo Cavalcanti

21 March 2023

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