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Ending maternal mortality
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News & Stories
Statement
UNFPA Statement on the International Day of the Girl 2021
11 October 2021
We celebrate girls in the digital generation. Yet, we also call urgent attention to those left behind by the digital divide.
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News
Using National Transfer Accounts for Policy Advancement across Asia-Pacific
08 October 2021
For over a decade, academics, national officers, experts, and policy planners across Asia have become acquainted with the methodology of National Transfer Accounts, which explores…
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News
A simple solution fends off child marriage amid COVID-19 in Nepal
07 October 2021
Rupantaran engages adolescent girls across Nepal who are at high risk of early and forced marriage and other obstacles that dissolve their ability to reach their full potential.
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In India, mobile phone edutainment helps prevent child marriage
07 October 2021
“The girl told me she did not want to get married and wanted to study so I did whatever I could to help her."
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PRESS RELEASE: As women and girls bear the brunt of the crisis, UNFPA urgently seeks $29.2 million to save and protect lives in Afghanistan
13 September 2021
There is an immediate and pressing need for the international community to step up and respond to the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan at scale, to save lives,…
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Statement
Statement of UNFPA on situation in Afghanistan
16 August 2021
UNFPA joins the United Nations Secretary-General and the international community in expressing its deep concern about the grave humanitarian crisis unfolding in Afghanistan. It is…
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News
Breaking barriers between religion and sexuality education for young people in Bhutan
11 August 2021
UNFPA’s partnership with religious leaders has helped break barriers between religion and comprehensive sexuality education. Thousands of young people are being taught on how to…
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Statement
The COVID-19 pandemic may have lasting consequences on population
11 July 2021
Our Executive Director's statement for World Population Day 2021 explains why rights and choices for all must lie at the heart of any response to demographic shifts.
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Press Release
Australia continues its support to UNFPA to ensure ethical and quality prevalence data on violence against women
23 June 2021
Addressing violence against women has long been an urgent public health and human rights priority. Yet, in some countries in the Asia-Pacific region, up to 68% of women have…
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