United Nations population fund
"The fact is that women have been trapped. Reproduction is used, consciously or not, as a means to control women, to limit their options and to make them subordinate to men. In many societies a serious approach to reproductive health has to have this perspective in mind. We must seek to liberate women."
-Dr. Nafis Sadik
Executive Director, UN Population Fund
The UN Population Fund works with governments, NGO's, and societies to create a world where "every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person's potential is fulfilled."
"Without reproductive health and freedom, women cannot fully exercise their fundamental human rights, such as those relating to education and employment."
UNFPA's goals include:
Click here for UNFPA's publication Reducing Unmet Need For Family Planning
Most Recent Publication:
By Choice, Not By Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights and Development (2012)
This report:
"The report asserts that governments, civil society, health providers and communities have the responsibility to protect the right to family planning for women across the spectrum." (UNFPA)
Findings:
Click here for the Executive Summary
-Dr. Nafis Sadik
Executive Director, UN Population Fund
The UN Population Fund works with governments, NGO's, and societies to create a world where "every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person's potential is fulfilled."
"Without reproductive health and freedom, women cannot fully exercise their fundamental human rights, such as those relating to education and employment."
UNFPA's goals include:
- "achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health (including family planning),
- promoting reproductive rights, and
- reducing maternal mortality and accelerating progress on the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) agenda"
Click here for UNFPA's publication Reducing Unmet Need For Family Planning
Most Recent Publication:
By Choice, Not By Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights and Development (2012)
This report:
- "analyzes data and trends to understand who is denied access [to family planning] and why;
- examines challenges in expanding access to family planning; and
- considers the social and economic impact of family planning as well as the costs and savings of making it available to everyone who needs it." (UNFPA)
"The report asserts that governments, civil society, health providers and communities have the responsibility to protect the right to family planning for women across the spectrum." (UNFPA)
Findings:
- Financial resources for family planning have declined
- In 2010, donor countries fell $500 million short of their expected contribution to sexual and reproductive health services in developing countries. (UNFPA)
- Contraceptive use has remained mostly steady
- Contraceptive prevalence has increased globally by just 0.1 per cent per year over the last few years. (UNFPA)
Click here for the Executive Summary
- About UNFPA. UNFPA. Web. 23 Nov. 2012. <http://www.unfpa.org/public/about>.
- "Publication." By Choice, Not By Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights and Development. UNFPA, 2012. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. <http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/publications/pid/12511>.