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UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
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United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA was established in 1969. Represented in 150 countries it is the worlds largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health. Its mandate includes a number of issues in the areas of family planning and population politics, as well as the co-ordination of population issues within the UN system.
The UNFPA is headquarterd in New York.
Documentation
The UNFPA official web site provides background information, news, full text reports and publications.
State of World Population is a yearly report on the global population situation. An electronic version is posted online at the UNFPA official web site.
Together with the UNDP, the UNFPA submits its annual report to the ECOSOC. It is issued as no 13 in the documentary series Supplements to the Official Records of the General Assembly. A complete collection in print is included in
the UN collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Databases and Indexes
References to UNFPA documents and reports from 1979 onwards with links to full texts for recent years can be accessed through the United Nations online catalogue - UNBISnet.