This story features women who share a determination to not be victims of violence forever.

UNFPA puts every effort into breaking the silence and ensuring that the voices of women are heard. One strategy is to engage men - policy makers, parents and young boys in discourse about the dynamics and consequences of violence.

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, it is believed that as many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or abused in some way - most often by someone she knows, including her husband or another male family member.

Watch testimonials of midwives from developing countries talking about the challenges they face in their daily life-saving work.

Watch testimonials of midwives from developing countries talking about the challenges they face in their daily life-saving work.

Gender-based violence is a serious problem globally. In Vietnam, according to the National Study on Domestic Violence against Women, 1 in 3 or 34% of ever-married women report at one time they suffered physical or sexual violence from their husbands.

As global population rises, projected to reach 7 billion in October 2011, so does the population of the world's cities. Thousands of young people live as homeless on the streets of Mexico City, the world's eighth largest city. Many of them, who had fled their homes because of lack of jobs or family violence now find themselves in squalid and often dangerous conditions.

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As the world's population pushes towards 7 billion, its second most populous country India continues to face rapid rural to urban migration, as millions of people continue to seek better economic opportunities in its already over-populated cities.