UNFPA Nepal

Ensuring rights and choices for all

Muslim minority women break barriers to embrace family planning
Women regularly seek Female Community Health Volunteers' advice, and she feels the stigma of using contraceptives has weakened. Women who used to feel embarrassed to show their arms after getting a shot now go the clinics openly.
SheDecides Day 2019 event in Kathmandu sparks Asian movements
"Patriarchal mindset is holding women back. Together, we must ensure women and girls thrive," Nepal’s Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens
Sports help tackle discrimination associated with disability
Women and girls with disabilities often face multiple societal barriers and disability evokes discrimination across Nepal and elsewhere.
Five actions for choice
The power to choose the number, timing and spacing of children can bolster economic and social development, new UNFPA report shows
Preparing for the 2021 census
The 2021 census is expected to help build the foundation to advancing the ongoing reforms by producing disaggregated data.
Life after fistula surgery: 'Like walking out of prison after 21 years'
Nepal’s first midwives set to graduate

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15 April 2019

World must work harder to secure sexual and reproductive rights for all, says new UNFPA report

KATHMANDU: The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women, empowering them to govern their own bodies and shape their own futures. But despite the gains made over the past 50 years, since the establishment of UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and

10 April 2019

World must work harder to secure sexual and reproductive rights for all, says new UNFPA report

The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women, empowering them to govern their own bodies and shape their own futures. But despite the gains made...

8 March 2019

Women and innovation: a blueprint for rights and choices

Everywhere, new technologies and innovations are transforming the way we work, the way we communicate, the way we interact with each other and with our environment, and the way we live, in ways previous generations...