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Deadly outcomes: Pregnant Afrodescendent women are abused and neglected due to systemic racism and sexism in health systems across the Americas, new UNFPA report finds

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Youth-friendly services scaling up in Kazakhstan, offering critical sexual and reproductive health care

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Youth peer educators, part of the Y-PEER network, sort through brochures with age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health information. © UNFPA Kazakhstan
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“Why are we excluded?": UNFPA distributes dignity kits to transgender women in Bangladesh following disastrous flooding

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Transgender advocate Ananya launched the "Shopner Chowa Shomajkollan Sangstha" group to empower transgender individuals through business skills instruction. ©️ UNFPA Bangladesh/Prince Naymuzzaman
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UNFPA, Universal Rights Group

Publication date

07 July 2023

Number of pages

56

Publication

Advancing Rights, Transforming Lives: Strategic Engagement with the United Nations Human Rights System to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

This report reviews how the UN human rights system has taken up women's rights, gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights and the degree to which these recommendations have been translated into action, with UNFPA's support.  

Country examples demonstrate the impact of UNFPA's strategic engagement with UN human rights mechanisms for advancing the rights and choices of women and girls.

Seeing the Unseen: State of World Population Report 2022

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.

An Unforgettable Day

Girls should not be sacrificed for her family’s economic salvation, poverty being a driver of child marriage. Let a girl be a girl. And let a woman’s wedding day be unforgettable for the right reasons, with tears shed for joy to celebrate beginnings, not for sorrow to mourn endings.