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23 November 2013
Press Release
UNFPA Launches Master Plan to Protect Women and Girls in the Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan
MANILA, Philippines -- Two weeks after Typhoon Haiyan caused unprecedented devastation in the Philippines, over 3.2 million women and girls of reproductive age are still in need…
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18 November 2013
Press Release
More than 200,000 Pregnant Women Need Care after Super Typhoon
MANILA—Some 235,000 pregnant women affected by typhoon Haiyan face heightened risks in the storm’s aftermath, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today. They urgently need…
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11 November 2013
News
New Life Springs Amid Chaos
Harija Idris, 32, gave birth on the boat assisted by a hilot, or a traditional birth attendant, who was a relative, when her family fled their house as gun fighting between…
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11 November 2013
News
UNFPA Estimates 200,000 Pregnant Women Need Help in Aftermath of Super Typhoon
Two days after Category 5 Typhoon Haiyan left central Philippines almost completely flattened, heartbreaking scenes are unfolding. Yet amidst the devastation, there was a story of…
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30 October 2013
Statement
Motherhood in Childhood: Facing the Challenge of Adolescent Pregnancy
The aim of UNFPA’s State of World Population 2013 is to provoke a new way of thinking about and tackling adolescent pregnancy and to encourage a shift away from interventions…
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30 October 2013
News
Rekha, a Child Mother
Rekha (not real name), is 14 years old and lives in the Rangpur Division northern part of Bangladesh. She got married when she was 13, years old, in her words “just after my first…
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30 October 2013
News
More than 7 Million Girls in Poor Countries Give Birth Before 18 Each Year, Finds New UNFPA Report
LONDON/UNITED NATIONS, New York, 30 October 2013 — Motherhood in childhood is a huge global problem, especially in developing countries, where every year 7.3 million girls under…
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29 October 2013
News
Stripped of choices
In her parents' village home, Setaita (not her real name) breastfeeds her first-born, a son whose father hasn't actively participated in this child-bearing experience, although he…
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29 October 2013
Obstetric Fistula: Another Blight on the Child Bride
It was personal experience that turned Gul Bano and her cleric husband, Ahmed Khan, into ambassadors against early marriage and its worst corollary—obstetric fistula. As is the…
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