News

Youth activists help adolescents beat the odds in remote Vanuatu

03 October 2014

Members of the Aneityum music project fetch firewood for a sing-along on the beach. Photo credit: UNFPA Pacific

Statement

Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of Violence

09 October 2014

News

Côte d’Ivoire rolls out campaign to reduce adolescent pregnancies

16 May 2014

Students in Côte d'Ivoire, where a campaign aims to increase access to sexual and reproductive health services and information. Photo credit: UNFPA Côte d'Ivoire

News

Parliamentarians Spotlight Rights of Women and Girls

28 April 2014

A photo presentation at the 6th International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action in Stockholm, Sweden. Photo credit: EPF/Kristian Pohl

News

Amid Crisis in South Sudan, Youth Continue to Hope for a Brighter Future

21 April 2014

A group of young people taking part in the UNFPA Youth and Adolescents Programme at the Juba III civilian protection camp in the South Sudanese capital. They are being trained to become peer educators on reproductive health and HIV prevention. Photo credit: Kenneth Odiwuor

News

Harnessing the potential of Africa’s youth

15 April 2014

Africa's youth population is growing rapidly. A school in Bamako, Mali, newly rehabilitated by UN engineers. Photo credit: UN Photo/Marco Dormino

News

Making Youth Participation a Reality

13 April 2014

Youth activists speak at a panel at UN headquarters, New York. Photo credit: UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz

News

Mapping a Sustainable Development Agenda for the 21st Century

09 April 2014

From left to right: Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA; Wanda Nowicka, Co-Founder of the Federation for Women and Family Planning of Poland; Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Joaquim Alberto Chissano, Former President of the Republic of Mozambique; Mariela Castro Espín, Director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education; and Ishita Chaudhry, Founder and Executive Director of the YP Foundation, India. Photo credit: Elsa Ruiz Photography

News

Midwives are Key to Fewer Maternal Deaths

08 April 2014

Midwifery students perform a demonstration using materials donated by UNFPA in Kampala, Uganda. Photo © Photo credit: UNFPA/Evelyn Kiapi

Speech

Opening of 47th Session of the Commission on Population and Development

07 April 2014

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