Looking at Namibia's progress on meeting its MDGs promises to women - through the eyes of the country's first female trawler captain.

Brokers find Vietnamese wives for South Korean men

Construction of a new road from China through Laos is transforming the traditional local economies. The road has increased commerce as local women initiate a lively trade with construction workers and their merchant wives.

A view on the effects of Climate Change from Bolivia

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.

A documentary about five Ethiopian women whose lives have been devastated by obstetric fistula and the difficult journey they undertake.

Ma Houay Kout village is in a particularly remote area in Attapeu Province in southern Laos. Once every three months, a health team will spend two days in each village and provide a range of services and information.

In Uganda today family planning is at the top of the agenda. At the moment there are 34 million citizens but the country has one of the fastest growing populations anywhere in the world. On average each woman will give birth to six children.

Sorie Kondi, blind from birth, has been called Sierra Leone's Stevie Wonder - but that may be premature. Still trying to make it as a world musician, Sorie's worried about the future of his daughter Zainab.