calendar_today 08 September 2017

Statement

UNFPA and Russia partner to improve population data and policies in Kyrgyzstan

UNITED NATIONS, New York — UNFPA and the Russian Federation today signed a landmark agreement on an initiative that aims to improve the data and analysis needed to…

calendar_today 29 August 2017

Peer-to-peer approach helps teens in Turkmenistan make healthy choices for life

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Eziz, 15, was full of insecurities and concerns about his future when he called a local teen hotline last year. He had also started smoking due to…

calendar_today 25 August 2017

Breaking down stereotypes and changing women’s lives through sports in Bosnia and Herzegovina

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — When Vildana Imamović was a child going to school, only boys got to play football in gym class, not girls. So while her peers in other…

calendar_today 26 July 2017

Helping mothers deliver safely at regional maternity hospitals in Albania

Helping mothers deliver safely in Albania

calendar_today 24 July 2017

Family planning and healthy lifestyles in focus on World Population Day

ISTANBUL — Canoeing, hiking and nights around the campfire are staples of the summer-camp experience. But another activity proved equally popular with adolescent campers in…

calendar_today 13 July 2017

Faith leaders denounce stigmatization of sexual-violence survivors in Bosnia and Herzegovina

SARAJEVO — For many of the uncounted survivors of sexual violence during the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the trauma they suffered is compounded to this…

calendar_today 11 July 2017

Statement

Critical online tool for reproductive-health procurement now available in Russian

ISTANBUL — Today, on World Population Day, UNFPA’s Procurement Services Branch (PSB) and UNFPA’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (EECARO)…

calendar_today 11 July 2017

‘Investing in family planning truly is an investment in the future’

On World Population Day, Dr. Tamar Khomasuridze, UNFPA Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health Adviser, speaks about the reasons the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region is…

calendar_today 05 July 2017

News

Dads in Georgia and Ukraine celebrate active parenting on Father’s Day

TBILISI, Georgia/KYIV, Ukraine — “I was only 17 years old when my daughter Anastasia was born. I knew I was too young to be a father, so I was very nervous, but also…