UNFPA Pacific Island Countries

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State of World Population Report - Motherhood in Childhood

Many countries have taken up the cause of preventing adolescent pregnancies, often through actions aimed at changing a girl’s behaviour. Implicit in su...

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i am not a lost cause

These young expectant mothers not only join the troubling national statistics on teenage pregnancy, they also become the subject of negative commentary over the d...

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A Deeper Silence

UNFPA is guided by the idea “Everyone Counts”, and while this is often referred to with regard to work on population, it is equally true in the mandat...

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i am not a lost cause

These young expectant mothers not only join the troubling national statistics on teenage pregnancy, they also become the subject of negative commentary over the d...

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National Study on Domestic Violence against Women in Tonga

This report has been prepared by Dr. Henrica A.F.M. (Henriette) Jansen, Dr. Seu’ula Johansson -Fua , Betty Hafoka -Blake, and Gabriella ...

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Kiribati Family Health and Safety Study

Gender-based violence (commonly referred to as violence against women) both reflects and reinforces inequality between men and women and compromises the health, dignity, securit...

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Swimming Against the Tide

UNFPA Pacific contributed financially and/or techincal assistance towards the completion of the GBV studies in the region and the publication of this report.

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Solomon Islands Family Health and Safety Study

The evidence which we have seen from this report on the Family Health & Safety Study challenges this conception. Two out of three women aged between 15 a...

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ICPD at 15

There is much quantitative evidence that Pacific Island countries have made progress toward achieving the goals and objectives of the ICPD POA over the past 15 years, but the ...