UNITED NATIONS, New York—Family planning is anchored on respect for human rights, women’s empowerment and social justice and equality, according to Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA.

UNITED NATIONS, New York—UNFPA is calling on governments around the world to commit more resources to the critical issue of voluntary family planning.

UNITED NATIONS, New York —The World’s Heads of State and Government adopted, ‘The Future We Want’, a common global vision that reaffirmed commitments their nations made in the Programme of Action of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Countries need to promote sustainable patterns of production and consumption – which are the defining features of the green economy – but also address demographic change through human-rights based policies in order to achieve sustainability, a new UNFPA reports says.

A new study by the Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA finds that the number of women in developing countries who want to avoid pregnancy but are not using modern contraception declined only slightly between 2008 and 2012, from 226 to 222 million.

ISTANBUL—Lawmakers from 110 countries reaffirmed today their support to the principles and goals of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development, emphasizing their continued centrality to efforts to reduce poverty and safeguard people’s health and rights, including sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.

<p>ISTANBUL —More than 400 delegates, including 200 parliamentarians, from more than 110 countries from around the world started a meeting in Istanbul today to renew their commitment to the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development.</p>

UNITED NATIONS, New York—Affordable, life-saving medicines and health supplies with the potential to save millions of lives are not reaching the children and women who most need them.

UNITED NATIONS, New York – The number of women dying of pregnancy and childbirth related complications has almost halved in 20 years, according to new estimates released today by the World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, UNFPA and the World Bank.

BANGKOK—Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, and Dr. Paijit Warachit, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Health, met today to discuss Thailand’s progress and challenges in promoting better reproductive and sexual health, especially among adolescents and youth.

UNITED NATIONS, New York—At the conclusion of its 2012 session late last week, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development adopted a groundbreaking resolution that provides a major boost to the sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights of adolescents and youth.

<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York—Urgent action is needed to protect and fulfill young people’s human rights, particularly their right to sexual and reproductive health.</p>