In their 1992 monograph, The Population of North Korea, Eberstadt and Banister use the data given to the UNFPA and also make their own assessments.

The Fund is also represented by UNFPA Goodwill Ambassadors and a Patron.

Access to reproductive health care also demands what UNFPA calls reproductive health commodity security, the ability for all individuals to obtain and use affordable, quality reproductive health supplies of their choice whenever they need them.

UNFPA also recognizes the rights, perspectives and influence of men and boys, and seeks to involve them in efforts to promote gender equality and improve reproductive health.

UNFPA also works in many contexts, including humanitarian and post-conflict situations, toward the elimination of gender-based violence and prevention of HIV.

The Nnabagereka places special emphasis on the education of girls, as witnessed through her work as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA, advocating for girls ' education ; She is also involved with the Forum for African Women Educationalists ( FAWE ) an organization whose goal is to accelerate female participation in education and to bridge the gender gap within the education system at all levels.

This is the aim of the Global Programme on Reproductive Health Commodity Security, which UNFPA spearheads.

Improving maternal health, MDG5, is a key priority for UNFPA and the goal which lags farthest behind.

UNFPA promotes and protects the rights of this important generation of young people, and works towards a world in which girls and boys have optimal opportunities to develop their full potential, to freely express themselves and have their views respected, and to live free of poverty, discrimination and violence.

* A successful UNFPA program which carried out three specific maternal mortality reduction projects that focused on the construction and renovation and equipping of health centers and rural maternity units.

UNFPA has been accused by different groups of providing support for government programs which have promoted forced-abortions and coercive sterilizations.

From 2002 through 2008, the Bush Administration denied funding to UNFPA that had already been allocated by the US Congress, partly on the grounds that the UNFPA supported Chinese government programs which include forced abortions and coercive sterilizations.

In a letter from the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns to Congress, the administration said it had determined that UNFPA ’ s support for China ’ s population program “ facilitates ( its ) government ’ s coercive abortion program ”, thus violating the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which bans the use of United States aid to finance organizations that support or take part in managing a program of coercive abortion of sterilization.

The Sandbaek Report of the European Union, which calls for the funding of the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ), was seen by some Catholic commentators as a contrast to the Mexico City Policy.

UNFPA assists countries in every aspect of this task, from developing capacity in data collection and analysis to participating in national, regional and global policy dialogue.

UNFPA ’ s income in 2009 totaled $ 783. 1 million, including $ 469. 4 million in voluntary contributions from governments and private donors.

Controversies regarding these allegations have resulted in a sometimes shaky relationship between the organization and the United States government, with three presidential administrations, that of Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush and George W. Bush withholding funding from the UNFPA.

" We located the family planning offices, and in that family planning office, we located the UNFPA office, and we confirmed from family planning officials there that there is no distinction between what the UNFPA does and what the Chinese Family Planning Office does ," said Scott Weinberg, a spokesman for PRI.

According to its Annual Report for 2008, the UNFPA received its funding mainly from European Governments:

However, since 2003 obstetric fistula has been gaining awareness amongst the general public and has received critical attention from UNFPA, who have organized a global campaign to " End Fistula ".

The plan was principally financed using funds from USAID ( 36 million dollars ), the Nippon Foundation, and later, the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ).

She served as Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) from 1987 until 2000.

According to a separate estimate by the United Nations, Earth ’ s population exceeded 7 billion in October 2011, a milestone that offers unprecedented challenges and opportunities to all of humanity, according to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

Promoting and protecting fundamental human rights, including reproductive rights, are at the core of all UNFPA programming.

A strong emphasis on the human rights, including reproductive rights, of individual women and men underpins all of UNFPA ’ s work and its way of working.

Because only 7. 5 % of women with fistula are able to access treatment ( as found by the UNFPA in 2003 ), the vast majority of women are forced to suffer the consequences of obstructed and prolonged labor simply because options and access to help is so incredibly limited ( there is one hospital dedicated to fistula treatment in the world, located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ).

As the international headquarters for the United Nations and its many associated institutions such as the UNFPA ( United Nations Population Fund ), New York is home to one of the world ’ s most important international institutions.

The three core areas of UNFPA ’ s work – reproductive health, gender equality and population and development strategies – are inextricably related.

UNFPA ’ s ' four keys ' to opening up opportunities for young people include incorporating youth issues into national development and poverty reduction strategies ; expanding access to gender-sensitive sexual and reproductive health education that encourages the development of life skills ; promoting a core package of health services and commodities for young people ; and encouraging youth leadership and participation.

UNFPA looks to improve the lives and expand the choices of individuals and couples because, according to UNFPA, in time the reproductive choices, multiplied across communities and countries, affect population construction and trends.

UNFPA works in partnership with governments, along with other United Nations agencies, communities, NGOs, foundations and the private sector to raise awareness and mobilize the support and resources needed to achieve its mission.

* UNFPA has worked for many years to end the practice of female genital mutilation, the partial or total removal of external female genital organs for cultural or other non-medical reasons.

In 2007, UNFPA in partnership with UNICEF, launched a $ 44-million program to reduce the practice by 40 per cent in 16 countries by 2015 and to end it within a generation.

In 1989 the Central Statistics Bureau released demographic data to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities ( UNFPA ) in order to secure the UNFPA's assistance in holding North Korea's first nationwide census since the establishment of the DPRK in 1946.

The United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) is a UN organization.

The work of the UNFPA involves promotion of the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity.

The UNFPA supports programs in more than 150 countries, territories and areas spread across four geographic regions: Arab States and Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa.

The UNFPA began operations in 1969 as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities ( the name was changed in 1987 ) under the administration of the United Nations Development Fund.

" UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programs to " reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV / AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.

UNFPA is the world's largest multilateral source of funding for population and reproductive health programs.

According to UNFPA these elements promote the right of " reproductive health ", that is physical, mental, and social health in matters related to reproduction and the reproductive system.

UNFPA works in partnership with governments, as well as with other agencies and civil society broadly, to advance its mission.

Working with a wide range of partners, UNFPA assists governments in delivering sexual and reproductive health care throughout the lifecycle of women.

UNFPA ’ s gender framework incorporates four strategic linkages that address critical factors underlying inequalities and rights violations: girls ’ education, women ’ s economic empowerment, women ’ s political participation and the balancing of reproductive and productive roles.

Promoting and protecting these rights requires considerable cultural fluency because UNFPA works in some of the most sensitive and intimate spheres of human existence, including sexuality, gender relations and population issues.