UNFPA’s flagship State of World Population report, this year analyzes how far countries globally, and in the wider European region, have come in implementing the groundbreaking Programme of Action adopted by the ICPD in Cairo in 1994.  

The UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia and the UNFPA Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, together with the European Union (EU), started the Phase II of the regional programme.

Child marriage is a human rights violation, which threatens girls’ lives and health, and limits their future prospects.