calendar_today 29 October 2014

Stripped of choices - a UNFPA column on adolescent pregnancy

IN her parents' village home, Setaita (not her real name) breastfeeds her first-born, a son whose father hasn't actively participated in this child-bearing experience,…

calendar_today 27 October 2014

Double Ebola threat for pregnant women

EBOLA has become a household buzz word in the last few weeks, if one can dare to be so presumptuous, based on the amount of media attention this deadly and contagious…

calendar_today 15 October 2014

Tomorrow is a girl - marking International Day of the Girl (October 11) 2013

When girls are not assured the same opportunities as boys, whether one speaks of the level of ones' education or which profession one would like to pursue, we as families,…

calendar_today 13 October 2014

Plan for a good start - an Opinion-Editorial

VUDA connotes a sense of history for us in Fiji - it is a commonly-held belief that families which first peopled these islands landed at this spot from which they then…

calendar_today 11 October 2014

Statement

Innovating for Girls’ Education - A statement by the UNFPA Executive Director Dr Osotimehin Babatunde on the occasion of International Day of the Girl Child (11 October 2013)

October 11, 2013 - More girls are in school today than ever before. However, too many girls, especially the most marginalized, have never seen the inside of a classroom, or…

calendar_today 02 October 2014

Investing in midwives for safe deliveries

WHAT would you tell the midwife who delivered you if you met her today? It is indeed rare to meet the one who coaxed your mother to a safe delivery. For millions of people,…

calendar_today 29 September 2014

The Pacific ripple - at the 6th Asian and the Pacific Population Conference

September 26, 2013 (UNFPA Pacific) - The Asia Pacific region has adopted a document towards a global development agenda that will contribute to an updated agenda for the…

calendar_today 25 September 2014

World leaders affirm ICPD at the 69th UN General Assembly Special Session on the ICPD

MORE than 120 world leaders including presidents, heads of governments, ministers and senior officials and representatives of civil society emphatically affirmed two days ago…

calendar_today 18 September 2014

Influence of religion in ensuring dignity for all

September 18, 2014 - HAVING faith or the belief in a higher power is (almost) a default setting for the majority of those who people the small island nations in this ocean of…