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Generation
of Change: Young People and Culture
Youth Supplement: State of World Population 2008
This Youth Supplement to UNFPA's State of
the World Population 2008 focuses on the interactions among
culture, gender and human rights and the critical importance
of culturally sensitive approaches for effective development
policies and programmes. The report, which is the third in a
series, addresses culture as it shapes and nurtures the lives
of young people and shows how young people develop their own
subcultures, which are often different from and may conflict
with the dominant culture.
State
of World Population 2008
Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights
Culture is and always has been central to
development. As a natural and fundamental dimension of
people's lives, culture must be integrated into development
policy and programming. This report shows how this process
works in practice. The starting point of the report is the
universal validity of the international human rights
framework. The focus is therefore on discussing and showcasing
how culturally sensitive approaches are critical for the
realization of human rights in general and women's rights in
particular.
Growing
Up Urban
State of World Population 2007: Youth
Supplement
This is the second edition of the Youth Supplement
to UNFPA’s State of World Population. The 2007 report focuses
on urbanization; the Youth Supplement addresses the challenges and
promises of urbanization as they affect young people. In 2008, for the
first time, more than half of the world’s population will live in
urban areas, and the number and proportion of urban young people is
increasing dramatically. Most will be born into poor families, where
fertility tends to be higher.
State
of World Population 2007
Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth
In 2008, for the first time, more than half of the
world’s population will be living in urban areas. By 2030, towns and
cities will be home to almost 5 billion people. The urban population
of Africa and Asia will double in less than a generation. This
unprecedented shift could enhance development and promote
sustainability—or it could deepen poverty and accelerate
environmental degradation. The 2007 State of World Population report
outlines the challenges and opportunities presented by the coming,
inevitable urban growth. It also dispels many misconceptions about
urbanization and calls on policymakers to take concerted, proactive
steps to harness the potential of cities to improve the lives of all.
Moving
Young
State of World Population 2006: Youth
Supplement
This report explores the lives of young women and
young men who have ventured into new lands to chase their dreams or to
escape oppression, war, poverty or misfortune. It profiles the lives
of young women and men from ten countries – Burkina Faso, Colombia,
India, Kenya, Liberia, Moldova, the Netherlands, the Philippines,
Suriname and Zambia. Some have never migrated, but their lives are
marked by the experiences of spouses or relatives who have moved
abroad. They were interviewed by journalists Martin Caparros and
Shyamala Shiveshwarkar in their countries of origin or destination.
State
of World Population 2006
A Passage to Hope: Women and International
Migration
Today, half of all international migrants—95
million—are women and girls. Yet, despite substantial contributions
to both their families at home and communities abroad, the needs of
migrant women continue to be overlooked and ignored. The State of
World Population 2006 report, A Passage to Hope: Women and
International Migration, examines the scope and breadth of female
migration, the impact of the funds they send home to support families
and communities, and their disproportionate vulnerability to
trafficking, exploitation and abuse. The report reveals that although
migrant women contribute billions of dollars in cash and services,
policymakers continue to disregard both their contributions and their
vulnerability—even though female migrants tend to send a much higher
proportion of their lower earnings back home than their male
counterparts.
State
of World Population 2005
The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity,
Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals
How do we improve the lives of the nearly 3
billion individuals living on less than two dollars a day? How can we
enable all individuals — male and female, young and old — to
protect themselves from HIV? To save the lives of more than 500,000
women who die each year in childbirth? What will it take to show young
people living in poverty that they have a stake in development and a
hope for the future?
State
of World Population 2004
The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population,
Reproductive Health and The Global Effort to End Poverty
This year's report, The Cairo Consensus at Ten:
Population, Reproductive Health and the Global Effort to End Poverty,
examines the progress countries have made and the obstacles they have
encountered at the halfway point in implementing the ICPD plan.
State
of World Population 2003
Making 1 Billion Count: Investing in
Adolescents' Health and Rights
Some 1.2 billion people--one person in five--are
between ages 10 and 19, the largest number of adolescents in history.
Half of them are poor; one in four live in extreme poverty, on less
than $1 a day. This year's State of the World Population report
examines their condition, in the context of changing social norms and
lifestyles, including weakening of family support systems, amid
globalization and urbanization. The report provides country-specific
examples of projects that combine life skills education, including
sexuality education, and peer counselling with access to services and
points out the high costs and social consequences of failing to
adequately meet adolescents' reproductive health and rights.
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State
of World Population 2002
People, Poverty and Possibilities
Attacking poverty directly, as a matter of human
rights, to accelerate development and to reduce inequality within and
among nations, has become an urgent global priority. World leaders
have agreed on a variety of new initiatives, including the United
Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This year's State of the
World Population report is a contribution to the discussion and a
guide to action. This publication characterizes poverty by reviewing
its many dimensions and looks at several of the key issues including,
poverty and gender, poverty and health and poverty and education. It
outlines a framework and provides recommendations to meet the poverty
eradication goal of reducing the number of poor in half, by 2015. This
publication comes complete with expert analysis, prescriptions for the
future and a wealth of statistics, graphs and indicators.
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State
of World Population 2001
Footprints and Milestones: Population and
Environmental Change.
Human activity is altering the planet on an
unprecedented scale, the report points out. More people are using more
resources with more intensity and leaving a bigger
"footprint" on the earth than ever before. The report
examines the close links between environmental conditions, population
trends, and prospects for alleviating poverty in developing countries.
It finds that expanding women's opportunities and ensuring their
reproductive health and rights are critically important, both to
improve the well-being of growing human populations and to protect the
natural world.
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State
of World Population 2000
Lives Together, Worlds Apart: Men and Women
in a Time of Change
The report examines a broad range of evidence from
around the world showing that systematic discrimination against women
and girls causes extensive suffering and lost opportunities for both
women and men, and holds back efforts to reduce poverty, improve
health, stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and slow rapid population growth.
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State
of World Population 1999
6 Billion: A Time for Choices
Women are having fewer children than ever before,
and population growth has slowed from 2.0 to 1.3 per cent in 30 years.
But large families in the recent past mean that there are many more
women of childbearing age. Global population is still rising by about
78 million people a year. Half the world is under 25 and there are
over a billion young people between 15 and 24, the parents of the next
generation.
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State
of World Population 1998
The New Generations
More young people than ever are entering their
childbearing and working years. At the same time, the number and
proportion of people over age 65 are increasing at an unprecedented
rate. Our future will be shaped by how well families and societies
meet the needs of these growing "new generations": education
and health -- including reproductive health -- for the young, and
social, medical and financial support for the elderly.
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State
of World Population 1997
The Right to Choose: Reproductive Rights and
Reproductive Health
Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health gaps
and failures in reproductive health care result in millions of deaths
and permanent injuries, mostly to women in developing countries. The
State of World Population 1997 report details progress and problems in
attaining the right to reproductive and sexual health, and related
rights to sexual and reproductive self-determination and security. It
reviews the international human rights agreements that define and
protect these rights, and examines the effects of denying them to
millions of women and men.
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State
of World Population 1996
Changing Places: Population, Development and
the Urban Future
Within ten years, more than half the people in the
world will be living in cities. Most of the urban population increase
will be in developing countries. Investment in social development--in
health, education and a better life for women--will be the key to
whether urbanization will improve the lives of people or increase
human misery.
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