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“I still want to finish school”: A crisis of reproductive agency for girls in Namibia

calendar_today07 October 2025

Elly Tjondu, 21, sits outside her family home with her baby and daughter in the Kunene Region, Namibia. ©UNFPA Namibia
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Lack of reproductive rights and choices undermines a generation of young people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

calendar_today07 July 2025

Ombeni Mburano, who is seven months pregnant with her sixth child, stands in front of the ruins of a bomb-hit makeshift shelter in an informal displacement site west of Goma. © UNFPA DRC / Jonas Yunus
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Explainer: Why investing in women and girls benefits everyone

calendar_today06 March 2025

Students at the Lycée Moderne de Bouna learn about issues around early sexuality in Côte d'Ivoire, where young people make up more than three quarters of the population.© UNFPA Côte d'Ivoire/Ollivier Girard
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Explainer: What is UNFPA and why does it matter?

calendar_today24 January 2025

Anitha Bosco, 35, receives an ultrasound scan from a midwife at a health centre in North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA DRC/Junior Mayindu
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This Mother’s Day, here are 5 reasons to celebrate motherhood – by choice

calendar_today10 May 2024

Henriette Akayezu, 19, with her son in Rwanda. This month, as more than 100 countries mark Mother’s Day, we call attention to the power and importance of exercising choice in the act of becoming mothers – a power afforded to too few. © UNFPA/Jadwiga Figula
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Population bomb, bust – or boon? New UNFPA report debunks 8 myths about a world of 8 billion

calendar_today19 April 2023

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
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Video

Reproductive rights are human rights

calendar_today29 June 2022

Reproductive rights are human rights

Reproductive rights are human rights

Restricting access to abortion does not prevent abortion. It simply makes it more deadly.

Read UNFPA's statement on the global implications of new restrictions to access to abortion here.

State of World Population 2020 cover

Publication date

Jun 2020

Author

UNFPA

Number of pages

160

State of World Population

State of World Population 2020

Defying the practices that harm women and girls and undermine equality

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Press release

World must work harder to secure sexual and reproductive rights for all, says new UNFPA report

calendar_today10 April 2019

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