UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund in Tajikistan, presented the “State of World Population 2018”.

 

This year, the report was published entitled as “The Power of Choice: Reproductive Rights and the Demographic Transition”. The global fertility trends are shown in the report as people’s desire to make own choices regarding their reproductive life: number, timing and spacing of children to have.

 

“Choice can change the world” - UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem writes in the report’s foreword. “It can rapidly improve the well-being of women and girls, transform families, and accelerate global development”.

 

When a woman has the power and means to prevent or delay a pregnancy, for example, she has more control over her health and can enter or stay in the paid labour force and realize her full economic potential.

 

“The way forward is the full realization of reproductive rights, for every individual and couple, no matter where or how they live, or how much they earn,” says the Dr. Kanem. “This includes dismantling all the barriers—whether economic, social or institutional—that inhibit free and informed choice”.

 

 

For more information, please contact Mr. Rustem Takhirov, 48 Aini str., B/C “Sozidanie”, or takhirov@unfpa.org