Publications

Accelerating Action: Strengthening alliances and addressing pushback against ending female genital mutilation

Number of pages: 90

Publication date: 30 June 2025

Publisher: UNFPA, UNICEF

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Publications

International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action

Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Number of pages: 296

Publication date: 01 September 2014

Author: United Nations

Publisher: UNFPA

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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. 

Resources

Household Structures and Older Persons

Resource date: 01 March 2020

Author: Sainan Zhang, Sandile Simelane, Tapiwa Jhamba, Rachel Snow

Publisher: UNFPA

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Video

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. 

Publications

Annual Report 2020

Publication date: 09 June 2021

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

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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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The State of the World's Midwifery 2021

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The State of the World’s Midwifery (SoWMy) 2021 presents findings on the Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Health (SRMNAH) workforce from 194 countries. The report, produced by UNFPA, the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Novametrics, shows the progress and trends since the inaugural 2011 edition and identifies the barriers and challenges to future advancement. The report establishes a global shortage of 1.1 million SRMNAH workers, the largest shortage (900,000) being midwives.

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