UNFPA, WHO condemn medicalisation of female genital mutilation, issue joint statement

Oct 09, 2025

In 2024, over 230 million women and girls globally had undergone FGM, with 80 million of them living in Asia. Alarmingly, around 1 in...

UNFPA establishes two new offices in Afghanistan to deal with humanitarian crisis

Nov 15, 2021

New York [US], November 15 : The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has established two offices in Afghanistan to scale up humanitarian response to...

India makes significant progress in poverty reduction, electrification, clean water, and sanitation: UNFPA

Oct 09, 2024

Kanem also pointed out the significant reduction in child marriages in India, which have dropped by half over the past 50 years

Nearly 6,500 adolescent girls die in childbirth every year in South Asia: UN Study

Jul 12, 2024

Nearly 6,500 adolescent girls die in childbirth in South Asia every year, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organisation...

Afghanistan has highest maternal deaths in Asia-Pacific: Report

Aug 18, 2022

Kabul [Afghanistan], August 18 : Highlighting that Afghanistan has the highest maternal mortality rate in the Asia-Pacific region, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)...

Global youth innovators crack the code on gender-based violence: Inclusiveness rating tool wins UNFPA India hackathon

Dec 22, 2022

New Delhi [India], December 22 (ANI/TechGig): Thirty-four-year-old Prachi Mittal from Team Nettwork beat 8,500 ideators to win the UNFPA India 'Hackathon: Crack the Code...