How we work
UNFPA works in more than 150 countries and territories that are home to the vast majority of the world’s people.
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This Slide Show was exhibited at the UNFPA Booth during the Women Deliver Conference, held June 7-9th in Washington, DC.
Many Burmese make the short journey to Thailand to find work. Often fishermen spend between one and two months at sea. Women have found work in fish markets, but some have ended up working as sex workers in karaoke bars.
Ahead of the 2010 World Cup in Africa, people from across the continent tell the stories of how football impacts on their lives in a new series of African Football Shorts.
It is mainly men who wage war. But it is women who so often pay the price. They bear the brunt of the suffering protracted conflict brings.
Resource date: 2009
Author: UNFPA, IIED
Publisher: UNFPA, IIED
UNFPA works in more than 150 countries and territories that are home to the vast majority of the world’s people.