‘The cost of inaction is simply too high: more women and girls dying… more unsafe abortions…’

The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women, enabling them to govern their own bodies and shape their own futures.

But despite the gains made over the past 50 years, since the establishment of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations’ sexual and reproductive health agency, the world still has a long way to go before rights and choices are claimed by all, according to the State of World Population 2019, a report released by UNFPA earlier this year.