It’s a woman’s right to control her future. Reproductive rights are human rights and access to contraception is one of the primary reproductive health rights. Contraception is key to safe and voluntary family planning. It advances the human right of people to determine the number and spacing of their children and reduces the rates of unintended pregnancies and the need for unsafe abortions. Healthy families are creat...

An estimated 15% of forcibly displaced people in the world live with disabilities. Many refugees with disabilities struggle to access essential services or do not know their rights and the services that are available to them. With the financial support of the European Union and partnership with the Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants (SGDD-ASAM), UNFPA Turkiye works to ensure that refugees wit...

Dr. Sadik joined UNFPA in 1971 and served as Assistant Executive Director from 1977 until her appointment as Executive Director in 1987. Throughout her long and distinguished career, Dr. Sadik called attention to the importance of addressing women’s needs, and of involving women as decision-makers and drivers of development policy. As the first woman to head a major voluntarily funded United Nations programme, she de...