UNFPA in Asia and the Pacific

UNFPA provides relief efforts to assist storm survivors in Northern Mindanao and Eastern Visayas regions in southern Philippines. Video: UNFPA Phil...

In Nepal, UNFPA and the Women's Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) are providing treatment for women suffering from obstetric fistula and spreading the ...

Efforts are under way to make childbirth safer in Bangladesh, by training midwives, upgrading facilities and providing lifesaving care closer to wh...

UNFPA puts every effort into breaking the silence and ensuring that the voices of women are heard. One strategy is to engage men -- policy makers, ...

Video: UNFPA Indonesia

Video: UNFPA Viet Nam

The world's population will top seven billion people in 31 October 2011. This unique moment in human history represents both an achievement and a c...

As the world's population pushes towards 7 billion, its second most populous country India continues to face rapid rural to urban migration, as mil...

Nearly 30 per cent of Lao women who want to avoid pregnancy are not using a family planning method. To help close this gap, a new initiative uses v...

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia talks about the challenges in a world of 7 billion people. Video: UNFPA Indonesia

Maternal and infant mortality in Laos are high because too many women give birth without skilled assistance. To address this gap, the country recen...

The infant and maternal mortality rates in the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam are 10 times higher than the national average. This Al Jazee...

This video tells the stories of three people living with HIV and on how they positively respond to the challenges they face. Video: UNFPA Philippines

This video shows a dialogue between two babies who exchange stories about their young parents and their situation. Video: UNFPA Philippines

This video presents the stories of five independent women from Maldives: Aishath, an artist; Zareena, a yam grower, Shakeeba, a taxi driver; Amira,...

UNFPA campaigns against gender-based violence in Maldives. Video: UNFPA Maldives

Nepal has developed an action plan to support women and girls affected by civil conflict, and to involve women in peacebuilding, as urged by the U...

At the age of 33, Maritess Gural delivered her baby under unsafe conditions in the wake of killer typhoon Ondoy in late 2009. Assisted only by a tr...

Civil society groups in the Philippines are working to change attitudes perpetuating violence against women. Their campaigns have proven effective...

Gender-based violence is a serious problem globally. In Viet Nam, according to the National Study on Domestic Violence against Women, one in three ...

Family planning is widely practised in Asia, but it remains controversial in the Philippines. The Congress there is debating a bill that would make...

UNFPA commemorated World AIDS Day in Vavuniya district and engaged the youth to take the lead in raising awareness about HIV/AIDS. Photo: Revati Ch...

Ifugao women traditionally have given birth at home, where labour complications can be fatal. But childbirth is becoming safer with the establishme...

Together with the Maternal Child Health Research Centre (MCHRC), UNFPA has implemented a telemedicine programme in eight selected provinces of Mong...

Sunila Abeysekara, an award-winning human rights campaigner, talks about the impact of conflicts on women and girls at the regional launch of the S...

About 500,000 women affected by the floods in Pakistan are pregnant and require medical help.

Women suffered severely during Nepal's civil war and an uncertain peace has not ended their insecurity. A UN call for women's protection during wa...

Reduction of maternal mortality is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals, but progress has been too slow in the Asia-Pacific region, which ...

Filipino lawmakers debate a reproductive health bill that would require the government to distribute modern contraceptives. More than half of the 3...

How can poor communities adapt to climate change? A fishing town in the Philippines shows how mobilizing women can help reverse man-made environmen...

Mothers displaced by conflict in Pakistan receive life-saving care in well-equipped maternity clinics.

In Afghanistan, where motherhood is more dangerous than anywhere else, Islamic leaders are teaching men and boys to protect the health and rights o...

Four years after the 2004 disaster, UNFPA's support has evolved from providing emergency supplies to rebuilding reproductive health services and wo...

A year after the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, many women received much better reproductive health care as a result of efforts by UNFPA and its part...

For 20 years, Basbebe was an outcast within her home. Now, her humiliating isolation has ended -- thanks to a determined doctor and a new surgery p...

With UN assistance, residents who were uprooted two years ago by conflict in eastern Sri Lanka are now returning home.

With UNFPA support, community centers set up after the December 2004 tsunami offer abused women with counseling, medical care, skills training and ...

To escape rural poverty, young rural migrants make sacrifices to live in fast-growing Ho Chi Minh.