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Youth-friendly services scaling up in Kazakhstan, offering critical sexual and reproductive health care

Youth peer educators, part of the Y-PEER network, sort through brochures with age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health information. © UNFPA Kazakhstan
  • 17 May 2023
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Publication

Advancing Rights, Transforming Lives: Strategic Engagement with the United Nations Human Rights System to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Number of pages: 56

Publication date: 07 Jul 2023

Publisher: UNFPA, Universal Rights Group

This report reviews how the UN human rights system has taken up women's rights, gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights and the degree to which these recommendations have been translated into action, with UNFPA's support.  

Country examples demonstrate the impact of UNFPA's strategic engagement with UN human rights mechanisms for advancing the rights and choices of women and girls.

Seeing the Unseen: State of World Population Report 2022

An estimated 121 million pregnancies per year take place in the bodies of women who did not choose pregnancy or motherhood, who were not planning to have a child at that time, with that partner, in those circumstances. Nothing is more fundamental to bodily autonomy than the ability to decide whether or not to become pregnant. Yet for too many, the most life-altering reproductive choice is no choice at all.

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“I want my baby safe, this is all I need.” Supporting women and girls in Myanmar after Cyclone Mocha tears a path of destruction

Women from the village of Say Thamar Kyi receive health care and reproductive health services at a mobile clinic operating in areas affected by Cyclone Mocha, in Rakhine state. © UNFPA Myanmar
  • 03 July 2023
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Updates

Anatomical birth models support midwifery trainings in Rwanda

29 Jun 2023

Anatomical birth models are realistic educational tools to simulate birth experiences, helping nurses to gain important midwifery skills to support deliveries through all stages of childbirth.
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Press Release

UNFPA report identifies rising population anxiety, urges radical rethink of how countries address changing demographics

19 April 2023

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Menstrual Hygiene Day 2023

28 May 2023

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