Family Planning, Human Rights and Development

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.

The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina may have ended 15 years ago, but for some 20,000 women, the legacy of wartime rape lives on. Women of all ethnic groups are still trying to cope with the psychological effects of violence perpetrated against them.

UNFPA is providing reproductive health care and working to prevent gender-based violence against women and girls who struggle to survive after Typhoon Haiyan.  The national police are putting in place mechanisms to ensure their safety until the situa

Married at 11, Destaye had hoped to stay in school.  But the birth of her child a few years later interrupted her plans. This short film examines the journey of an Ethiopian child bride.

In Afghanistan, conflict has not only caught the female non-combatants in its violence, but have severely crippled already inadequate services such as health and education.

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.