Nearly 93,000 women will be missing in Armenian society by 2060 if the country’s high pre-natal sex selection rate remains unchanged, according to projections included in a new report released by UNFPA.

Today Lena becomes a teenager. The world around her is full of possibilities. But also risks. See what opportunities and risks Lena and other girls and young woman are facing in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and how UNFPA is assisting the countries in the region to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

Can family planning contribute to population growth in the low fertility countries of Eastern Europe? It can. And here is why.

Mind the Gap is a project by a student from a Jakarta-based school, Binus School Simprug Audrey Elena (Grade 9) with an aim to raise public awareness regarding the gender discrimination issue.

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental human rights. Having access to those rights will bring about huge changes to the lives of women and girls around the world. Only when women and girls have those rights will we have gender equality and only then will we be able to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems.