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“Investing in 10-Year-Old Girls Could Yield Huge Demographic Dividends, Pump Millions into Afghanistan’s Economy” UNFPA Flagship Report State of the World Population 2016
Forced and early marriage, child labour and other practices undermining girls’ health and rights threaten the world’s ambitious development agenda, warns UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, in... Read more
UNFPA Mobile Health Team Helps Pregnant Woman to Safety from Floods
Under a heavy shower of rain, in a flooded remote village of Daikundi, 24 year old Khadija was stuck under a collapsed wall with no hope for help. Khadija lived with her two underage kids while her... Read more
Statement by UNFPA on U.S. Decision to Withhold Funding
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 4 April 2017—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, regrets the decision by the United States to deny any future funding for its life-saving work the world over. This... Read more
Universal access to sexual and reproductive health—the key to gender equality
Gender equality is a human right. Women are entitled to live in dignity and in freedom from want and fear, without discrimination. Gender equality is also vital to sustainable development, peace and... Read more
Launch of Herat Socio-demographic and Economic Survey Final Report
Central Statistics Organization of Afghanistan Herat, 07 March 2017 – Central Statistics Organization (CSO) of Afghanistan launched the final report of data set for Herat Socio-Demographic and... Read more
CSO Launches Findings of the Largest Survey from Nimroz Province
Central Statistics Organization of Afghanistan Kabul, 31 January 2017 – Central Statistics Organization (CSO) of Afghanistan launched the highlights of Nimroz Socio-Demographic and Economic Survey... Read more
Launch of Herat Socio-demographic and Economic Survey Highlights 2016
Kabul, 20 December 2016 – Central Statistics Organization (CSO) of Afghanistan launched the highlights of Herat Socio-Demographic and Economic Survey during a press event at CSO. CSO with the support... Read more
Meaningful and Comprehensive Actions by Every Member of the Society to End Violence against Women (#EndVAW2016 / #16daysofactivism)
National Conference: Gender-based violence key stakeholders to renew commitments to EndVAW Kabul, 4 December 2016 – Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), UNFPA-the United Nations Population Fund in Kabul... Read more
Empowering women and girls requires renewed efforts to end violence and harmful practices
Statement by Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, on the International Day for the Elimination... Read more
Afghan Returnee Mothers’ Grave Need for Reproductive Health Care
“I examined the mother, only to find out that she had carried her dead fetus for weeks,” said Alia Ayar, a UNFPA midwife providing obstetric emergency care in times of humanitarian crises around... Read more