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The climate crisis is putting women and girls in extreme danger
The climate crisis is an emergency for everyone, but women and girls are paying a heavy price.
Climate change leads to more unintended pregnancies, more child marriages, more women dying during childbirth, more violence and more exploitation.
As world leaders gather for COP28, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem calls on them to protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of vulnerable women and girls.
Consider Why
Why do UNFPA and the humanitarian workers we support continue to help the seemingly endless number of women and girls in need? Because we care, and we know you do too.
Learn more about our mission to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.
How we work
UNFPA works in more than 150 countries and territories that are home to the vast majority of the world’s people.
8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices
The world population has reached 8 billion. Are there too many people? Too few? These are the wrong questions.
See how humanity becoming 8 billion strong opens us up to infinite possibilities and find out why UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is making a case for reproductive rights and choices.
Girls in Afghanistan want to go back to school
One year after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, 17-year-old Mursal is still in disbelief that she can’t go back to school.
“It’s not right that they’re ordering us to hide our faces and stop going to school. I hope that young girls will not give up,” she says.
See how Mursal is giving back to her community with UNFPA’s help.
A Call for Peace on Father’s Day
“It was emotionally difficult… I miss everything,” says Oleksandr.
The war in Ukraine has separated millions of fathers like Oleksandr from their families. This Father’s Day, what they need more than anything is peace.