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

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...

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...

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...

10th National Laadli Media and Advertising Awards recognizes Hard-hitting Gender Sensitive Content

Dec 16, 2020

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 16 (ANI/ NewsVoir): Noted music composer Usha Khanna was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 10th edition of the...