News

Explainer: Why investing in women and girls benefits everyone

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
  • 06 March 2025
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Explainer: What is UNFPA and why does it matter?

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
  • 24 January 2025
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News

This Mother’s Day, here are 5 reasons to celebrate motherhood – by choice

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
  • 10 May 2024
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News

Population bomb, bust – or boon? New UNFPA report debunks 8 myths about a world of 8 billion

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
  • 19 April 2023
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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.

State of World Population

State of World Population 2020

Defying the practices that harm women and girls and undermine equality

Number of pages: 160

Publication date: 30 Jun 2020

Author: UNFPA

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Press Release

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

10 April 2019

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State of World Population

State of World Population 2019

Unfinished Business: the pursuit of rights and choices FOR ALL

Number of pages: 180

Publication date: 10 Apr 2019

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

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Updates

ICPD25: Gender equality needed for “unlocking the full potential of a country”

26 Feb 2019

A young mother receives sexual and reproductive health services at a health clinic in Kashikanwa. © UNFPA/Chiara Frisone
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