Tanzania: Girls Struggle to Avoid Forced Marriage, Yearn to Learn
Maria was barely 16 when her father removed her from school to marry her off to a man 20 years older than she was just so that the family could receive eleven cows as her dowry. “I didn’t want to get...
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Women of Haitian Descent Bear the Brunt of Dominican Migration Policy
Two women selling fruit, grains and vegetables in the Little Haiti street market in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. They allowed their picture to be taken but preferred not to...
View ArticleUNFPA Funding Cuts Threaten Women’s Health in Poorer Nations
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA), which has played a key role in ensuring maternal health and promoting reproductive rights of millions of women world-wide, is expected to suffer over $140 million in...
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Breaking the silence on Gender Based Violence
CS Sicily Kariuki visits a maternity center at Kilifi Hospital supported by UNFPA Kenya. Photo Credit: @unfpakenBy Sicily K. Kariuki, CBS and Siddharth ChatterjeeKILIFI COUNTY, Kenya , Jul 1 2016...
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Pan African Parliament Endorses Ban on FGM
Female genital mutilation (FGM) traditional surgeon in Kapchorwa, Uganda speaking to a reporter. The women in this area are being trained by the civil society organisation REACH in how to educate...
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“Devastating Consequences” for Women, Girls as U.S. Defunds UN Agency
Mothers and babies wait for health screening at a US funded health clinic in Uganda. Credit: Lyndal Rowlands / IPS.By Tharanga YakupitiyageUNITED NATIONS, Apr 5 2017 (IPS)The U.S. has withdrawn all of...
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Tomatoes, Limes and Sex-Selective Abortions
Credit: Curt Carnemark / World Bank. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0By Lyndal RowlandsUNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 2017 (IPS)When Bimla Chandrasekharan saw that women who gave birth to baby girls were being sent out of the...
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Closing the Gaps in Sexual Education for People with Disabilities
Melody Kemp/IPSBy Lyndal RowlandsUNITED NATIONS, Jul 7 2016 (IPS)From forced sterilisation to sexual abuse, young women and men with disabilities are much more likely to have their sexual and...
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Talking Openly – The Way to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy
A teenage mother and her toddler in Bonpland, a rural municipality in the northern province of Misiones in Argentina. Latin America has the second highest regional rate of early pregnancies in the...
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“The Time is Now” to Invest in Youth, Girls
Natalia Kanem, Acting Executive Director the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Credit: UN Photo/Mark GartenBy Tharanga YakupitiyageUNITED NATIONS, Jul 28 2017 (IPS)The demographic dividend:...
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Developing World Faces Challenge of Large Ageing Population
Over the next decade, China will be home to the world's largest elderly population, while India -- because of its demographic dividend – will require jobs for the world's largest workforce. Credit:...
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Family Planning Is A Human Right
A basket of condoms passed around during International Women’s Day in Manila. Without publicly funded family planning services or information, we can only expect to see higher rates of unintended...
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The Right to Choose
Manes Feston, flanked by her children, holds her four-month-old son Fedson. He was one of triplets but his siblings died because of a lack of welfare support. High fertility rates can be seen in much...
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Parliamentarians Promote Youth Investment in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan boys swim in muddy water of Syr Darya river. Parliamentarians from Kazakhstan are advocating for youth employment opportunities, healthcare services, and educational possibilities at a...
View ArticleCrusade Against Sex Education Undermines Progress Made in Latin America
The crusade against comprehensive sex education by conservative and religious sectors undermines progress in Latin America and could further drive up rates of teen pregnancy, communicable diseases and...
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Partnering for Youth in Central Asia
Teenagers hanging out in Kazakhstan. In Kazakhstan the lack of sexuality education has led to 91 percent of young people aged between 15 and 19 not having accurate and full knowledge on HIV and AIDS....
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A Key Role for 1.8 Billion Youth in UN’s 2030 Development Agenda
Students in Primary Seven at Zanaki Primary School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during an English language class. Credit: Sarah Farhat/World Bank. By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Aug 16 2019 (IPS) The UN...
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UNFPA Highlights Need to Address Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women in...
The $683 million will be used for efforts towards women’s reproductive and sexual health rights across 57 countries, of which about $300 million will be directed towards UNFPA’s projects in Arab state...
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**Correction**How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Affecting Women’s Sexual and...
A dated photo of a mother and her child from West Point, a low-income neighbourhood of Monrovia, Liberia. Advocates worry that there will be numerous kinds of impact on women’s access to sexual and...
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Q&A: Child Marriage, FGM and Harmful Practices on Women’s Bodies to Increase...
Studies have shown that the longer a girl stays in school, the less likely she is to be forced into child marriage. With many schools currently shut down and girls are not going to school, an increase...
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The U.N. at 70: Time to Prioritise Human Rights for All, for Current and...
Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Credit: UN Photo/Paulo FilgueirasBy Dr. Babatunde OsotimehinUNITED NATIONS, May 20 2015 (IPS) Seventy years ago,...
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Opinion: Immigration, Myths and the Irresponsibility of Europe
By Roberto SavioROME, Jun 6 2015 (IPS) With little fanfare, the German IFO Institute for Economic Research recently published a report on population projections for Germany which states simply that the...
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Cameroonian Women and Girls Saying No to Child Marriage
Bienvienue Taguieke, now 15, who refused to be sold into marriage when she was 12 for the equivalent of 8.5 dollars. Credit: Ngala Killian Chimtom/IPSBy Ngala Killian ChimtomMAROUA, Cameroon, Jun 10...
View ArticleCape Verde’s Newest Voice Sends Message to Girls
Elida Almeida is Cape Verde’s newest star, with thousands of fans in Africa and Europe. She sings, dances, plays the guitar, tells jokes, and makes her audiences laugh as well as groove. But behind it...
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Humanitarian Emergencies Lend Urgency to World Population Day
A group of young Somali girls at the Ifo 2 Refugee Camp in Dadaab, Kenya, which is supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Credit: UN Photo/Evan SchneiderBy Thalif...
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Minorities Speak Out in Latin American Population Conference
“Not one step back” in compliance with the region’s demographic agenda, demanded activists at the Second Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the...
View ArticleClimate Change and Women Across Three Continents
By Dizzanne Billy, Domoina Ratovozanany, and Sohara Mehroze ShachiPARIS, Dec 12 2015 (IPS) The link between women in climate change is a cross-cutting issue that deserves greater recognition at climate...
View ArticleWrong Time of the Month: a Rights Gap for Developing Countries’ Girls
Gina Din, the Founder and CEO of the Gina Din group, is a businesswoman from Kenya specializing in strategic communication and public relations. She was named CNBC outstanding businesswoman of the year...
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Shortages Reveal Low Priority of Women’s Health in Nepal
Chiring Tamang holds the family’s new baby while his wife Priya looks on. She delivered the girl at home in their village in Nepal’s Sindhupalchowk district in February 2021. Credit: Marty Logan /...
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Meaningful Dialogue Amplifies Youth Issues, Leads to Change
Delegates at the 'Intergenerational Dialogue of the Asian Parliamentarians and Youth Advocates on Meaningful Youth Engagement' discussed how meaningful dialogue amplify young people’s issues and lead...
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In Latin America’s Aging Population, 17 Percent Will Be Over 65 by 2050
Nelly García is 65 years old, and for 30 years she has been selling flowers at a market in Lima because she was unable to return to her profession as a nurse technician after taking a break from work...
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Parliamentarians Ask G7 Hiroshima Summit to Support Human Security and...
Parliamentarians attending the Global Conference of Parliamentarians on Population and Development Toward the 2023 G7 Hiroshima Summit. Credit: APDABy Cecilia RussellJOHANNESBURG, May 9 2023 (IPS)...
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Medical Abortion Expands Women’s Rights in Argentina
A demonstration in the city of Córdoba, capital of the province of the same name in central Argentina, in favor of legal, safe and free abortion and women's rights. The color green has identified the...
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Lawmakers’ Vital Roles in Ensuring Dignity for Aging Populations
Dr Rintaro Mori, Regional Adviser, Population Ageing and Sustainable Development at UNFPA, told the conference it was crucial to invest to improve social security, health, and well-being. Credit: APDA...
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Building Resilience and Mental Health Capacity of Youth
Students joined APDA-affiliated parliamentarians at a two-day workshop on mental health. Credit: APDABy Cecilia RussellSRI JAYAWARDENEPURA KOTTE & ATHENS, Mar 25 2024 (IPS) Sri Lankan lawmaker...
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