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Frequently Asked Questions

The goal of UNFPA is ensure reproductive rights for all. To accomplish this, UNFPA works to ensure that all people, especially women and young people, are able to access high-quality sexual and reproductive health services, including voluntary family planning, so that they can make informed and voluntary choices about their sexual and reproductive lives.

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8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices

April 19, 2023

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. 

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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem’s Message at the launch of The State of World Population 2022

March 30, 2022

Remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the Virtual Media Briefing on The State of World Population 2022

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Art installation puts need for bodily autonomy on display

July 12, 2021
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UNFPA in Action 2020

June 15, 2021

In 2020, UNFPA witnessed the greatest humanitarian crisis since the organization’s creation 52 years ago: the COVID-19 pandemic. This public health catastrophe brought with it socioeconomic, political and human rights crises, doubling the global need for humanitarian assistance from the previous year. Women and girls bore many of the worst impacts. Watch this video to see how UNFPA rose to the challenge. Learn more

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News

After childbirth trauma, Afghan women emerge from life in shadows

07 June 2016
Noorjahan laughs as she recovers from fistula surgery in Malalai Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Now, she says, "I can live." © Andrea Bruce/ NOOR
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