Istanbul, 11 July 2024 – On today’s World Population Day, the UNFPA Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia stressed the need for responses to the demographic shifts countries in the region are facing to be based on sound evidence and human rights.

Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) against persons with disabilities is an act of violence perpetrated by one or more individuals that is planned, executed, or facilitated (partially or wholly) through the use of information and communication technology or digital media and digital social media platforms against an individual on the basis of gender.

Istanbul/Vienna, 15 May 2024 – UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the operational unit of Austrian Development Cooperation, today announced the launch of the second phase of their “Expanding Choices” programme promoting gender-responsive family policies in cooperation with governments and the private sector in the Western Balkans.