News

Human Rights Essential to Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health Agenda

Women queue for sexual and reproductive health services at Kanungu Health Centre IV in Uganda. Photo credit: UNFPA/Omar Gharzeddine

10 April 2014

News

Mapping a Sustainable Development Agenda for the 21st Century

From left to right: Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA; Wanda Nowicka, Co-Founder of the Federation for Women and Family Planning of Poland; Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Joaquim Alberto Chissano, Former President of the Republic of Mozambique; Mariela Castro Espín, Director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education; and Ishita Chaudhry, Founder and Executive Director of the YP Foundation, India. Photo credit: Elsa Ruiz Photography

09 April 2014

Statement

Statement on the Philippines Supreme Court’s Decision on the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law

09 April 2014

News

The World Must Reach Those Left Behind

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin launches a review of the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action. Photo Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten

08 April 2014

News

Women, Girls Must Top Development Agenda

<p>Women and girls must be a priority, said participants in a high-level debate at the United Nations. <i>Photo Credit: UNFPA/Omar Kasrawi</i> </p>

04 April 2014

Media Advisory

How Critical are Human Rights, Equality to Development?

01 April 2014

News

Sound of Silence: Dealing with the Legacy of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War

Hasija was one of the first women to testify before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in a case of war rape, in 1996. Her hometown of Rakitnica was set ablaze during the war and her family was expelled. Her father and brother did not survive. Photo credit: Armin Smailovic/Sarajevo, 2010

17 March 2014

News

Accelerating Progress on the Millennium Development Goals for Women and Girls

UNFPA Deputy Executive Director Kate Gilmore (left) delivered remarks alongside Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of the UN Women.

11 March 2014

"Sexual and Reproductive Health is a Fundamental Human Right": UNFPA Executive Director Addresses Human Rights Council

04 March 2014

Statement

Statement by the Executive Director for the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

06 February 2014