05 May 2013

Joint statement from the United Nations Population Fund and the International Confederation of Midwives

Skilled midwives, with the equipment and support they need, can spell the difference between life and death for close to 300,000 women each year, and ten times that many infants.

NEW YORK ¦ 7 March 2013 – Between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides, according to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

If current levels of child marriages hold, 14.2 million girls annually or 39,000 daily will marry too young.

Furthermore, of the 140 million girls who will marry before they are18, 50 million will be under the age of 15.

The challenges of collecting and using data are particularly enormous in conflict and humanitarian contexts.

UNFPA and UNICEF call for accelerated efforts as the practice begins to decline

NEW YORK, 6 February 2013 – Fewer girls are subjected to the life-threatening practice of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) according to new data from the United Nations, released on the International Day of Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting.

The data shows that FGM/C is becoming less prevalent overall and the younger generation is less vulnerable to the practice.

Saving the Lives of Women and Children: Progress on MDGs 4 and 5

Since 2007, the Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals has brought together a number of actions and initiatives, all aimed at fulfilling the promises given by world leaders in the Millennium Declaration in 2000.

Since then, the campaign has issued regular updates on progress on women's and children's health.

Cairo, 9 December 2012 - UN Women, WHO, UNFPA and UNAIDS are fully committed to stopping violence against women and to ensuring the security, safety and dignity of women and girls regardless of where, when and how this violence is perpetrated.

UN Women, WHO, UNFPA and UNAIDS express particular concern about the high vulnerability of marginalized women, including young and adolescent girls, women with disabilities, women living with HIV and women in situations of conflict, who are frequent targets of violence.

UNITED NATIONS, New York — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund and Nokia announced today that the mobile communications company will donate the equivalent of 3,000 clean delivery kits to the Fund. The donation will be made as a result of UNFPA’s social media campaign Safe Birth. Even Here launched earlier this year. The kits, designed and distributed by UNFPA, help ensure safe delivery of babies in humanitarian settings.

“By choice, not by chance: family planning, human rights and development”

NAY PYI TAW, Myanmar, 14 November 2012 — UNFPA and the Ministry of Health jointly launched the 2012 State of World Population Report, which highlights access to family planning as an essential human right that can unlock unprecedented rewards for socio-economic development.

Des investissements accrus dans la planification familiale économiseraient aux pays en développement plus de 11 milliards de dollars par an

L’accès à la planification familiale est un droit fondamental de la personne porteur d’avantages sans précédent pour le développement économique, note un nouveau rapport de l’UNFPA

• Il y a dans les pays en développement 222 millions de femmes qui ont un besoin non satisfait de planification familiale

• Il faut 4,1 milliards de dollars de plus pour répondre aux besoins actuels et à ceux d’une population jeune en expansion