News

Sri Lanka’s once robust health system nears collapse amid crisis – and pregnant women pay the price

Some 215,000 women are currently pregnant in Sri Lanka and 145,000 will give birth in the next six months. File image from 2019. © UNFPA Sri Lanka/Ruvin De Silva

08 August 2022

News

In Costa Rica, indigenous youth leaders are blazing a trail toward a better future for women and girls

In her daughter, Ms. Gallardo sees the future. © UNFPA Costa Rica/Gabriela Rodríguez

05 August 2022

Statement

Statement of the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) Action Coalition on Bodily Autonomy and SRHR on the Overturn of Roe v. Wade

03 August 2022

News

Speaking out for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Egypt

Members of a UNFPA-supported youth club in Egypt perform in an awareness-raising session on sexual and reproductive rights and health. © UNFPA Egypt

28 July 2022

News

Gender and income inequalities driving teenage motherhood in developing countries, new report confirms

Haiti – Lumilene*, 15, lives with her parents and her 6-month-old daughter in a camp for people displaced by the earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010. She is one of many child mothers in the camp, where violence against girls and women is rife. © UNFPA/Plan International/Pieter ten Hoopen

05 July 2022

Press Release

UNFPA research reveals that nearly a third of all women in developing countries become mothers during adolescence

05 July 2022

News

Ukrainian refugees in Moldova guaranteed access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services

Olga rests with her new daughter after delivering her via caesarean section at the maternity hospital in Balti, in the Republic of Moldova. Olga was seven months pregnant when she fled with her four-year-old son, Timofey, from their home town of Ochakiv, near the southern port city of Odesa in Ukraine. @ UNFPA Moldova

29 June 2022

Reproductive rights are human rights

Published on: 29/06/2022

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.

Statement

UNFPA statement on the global implications of new restrictions to access to abortion

24 June 2022

Publication

Motherhood in Childhood: The Untold Story

Number of pages: 70

Publication date: 27 Jun 2022

Publisher: UNFPA

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