News

Five things you didn’t know about disability and sexual violence

Young people with disabilities face staggering rights violations, including being cut off from education and health care, and subjected to sexual violence. © UNFPA/Théodore Somda
  • 30 October 2018
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News

Five actions for choice

No country – regardless of income level or political system – has yet made reproductive rights a reality for all. © UNFPA/Egor Dubrovsky
  • 16 October 2018
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State of World Population

State of World Population 2018

Number of pages: 158

Publication date: 17 Oct 2018

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

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Publication

Manual on Social Norms and Change (2016)

Number of pages: 24

Publication date: 02 Jun 2016

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

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News

507 maternal deaths take place every day in emergencies, fragile settings, flagship report says

  • 03 December 2015
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What we do

Published on: 06/04/2017

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The day I became a woman

Published on: 06/02/2017

For millions of women around the world, the transition to womanhood is not marked by independence, a job or graduation from school, but rather by female genital mutilation.

Statement

Empowering women and girls requires renewed efforts to end violence and harmful practices

21 November 2016

This is 2016 and yet one in three women worldwide still experiences or has experienced some form of physical or sexual violence, usually perpetrated by someone she knows. Moreover, millions of women and girls have been subjected to other forms of violence and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, which affect an estimated 200 million women and girls, or child marriage, with one in three girls in developing countries being married off before the age of 18.

Resources

Hurricane Matthew: Women's needs in Haiti

Resource date: Oct 2016

When Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on 4 October, it caused the worse devastation since the 2010 earthquake. UNFPA is assessing the needs of affected women and girls, and is providing care, support and assistance.

Resources

Ten key facts and figures about 10-year-old girls

Resource date: Oct 2016

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