News

Family Planning Conference Highlights Political Commitment and the Importance of Youth

Balanish Gamada (left) is one of three million volunteer leaders mobilized across Ethiopia to provide counselling and help increase the use of health services, including family planning. She is responsible for a population of 38,000 in her local administrative district of Aleltu, close to the capital Addis Ababa. Photo © UNFPA/Etienne Franca

12 November 2013

News

Providing ‘Safe Spaces’ for Adolescent Girls in Niger

Young girls share their impressions about how they are already benefitting from the ‘safe space’ programme with UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Osotimehin. Photo credit: UNFPA Niger/Moussa Abdou Saley

08 November 2013

Media Advisory

UNFPA to Highlight Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young People, especially Girls

08 November 2013

In the News

UN, World Bank Boost Support for Women’s Health, Girls’ Education in Africa’s Sahel

07 November 2013

News

A New Midwifery School Brings Hope to Haitian Mothers

Classes have begun at the new National Midwifery School in Port-Au-Prince, housed in a new earthquake-resistant building following the devastating quake that hit Haiti in January 2010. UNFPA

06 November 2013

News

State of World Population 2013 Launches Worldwide

31 October 2013

Speech

The State of World Population 2013: Motherhood in Childhood

30 October 2013

News

New York and Chicago Ad Campaigns Spur Debate and Controversy in Push to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy

27 October 2013

Press Release

More than 7 Million Girls in Poor Countries Give Birth Before 18 Each Year, Finds New UNFPA Report

30 October 2013

News

Graduating Health Pioneers in the World’s Youngest Country

Newly graduated midwives and nurses celebrate as they obtain their diplomas from the Juba College of Nursing and Midwifery in South Sudan. Photo: © UNFPA/South Sudan

21 October 2013

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