News

The threads that bind: How bilum-weaving in Papua New Guinea tells stories from the lives of women and girls

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Florence Jaukae Kamel is a bilum weaver and entrepreneur. © UNFPA Papua New Guinea
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News

“We are making a difference”: Advocating against period poverty and female genital mutilation in The Gambia

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Reusable pads shared at St. John's School for the Deaf.  © UNFPA The Gambia
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News

In Angola, young people help shatter the stigma around comprehensive sexuality education

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Eva Monteiro Teixeira, a mentor with the UNFPA Safeguard Young People programme, leads a discussion on sexual and reproductive health at the Escola Grafanil in Luanda. © UNFPA Angola/K Karlo Cesar
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News

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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Publisher

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.

News

“I want my baby safe, this is all I need.” Supporting women and girls in Myanmar after Cyclone Mocha tears a path of destruction

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Women from the village of Say Thamar Kyi receive health care and reproductive health services at a mobile clinic operating in areas affected by Cyclone Mocha, in Rakhine state. © UNFPA Myanmar
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Updates

Anatomical birth models support midwifery trainings in Rwanda

calendar_today29 June 2023

Anatomical birth models are realistic educational tools to simulate birth experiences, helping nurses to gain important midwifery skills to support deliveries through all stages of childbirth.
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Press release

UNFPA report identifies rising population anxiety, urges radical rethink of how countries address changing demographics

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