Giving girls today and tomorrow

Breaking the cycle of adolescent pregnancy

Published by: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2007
Via: UN Pulse

A new report Giving Girls Today and Tomorrow: Breaking the cycle of the adolescent pregnancy (pdf, 3.08 MB) was published by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on the issue of adolescent pregnancy among married and unmarried girls. According to the report, the early pregnancy is number one killer of adolescent girls. The report claims that the social, economic and health consequences of the adolescent pregnancy are far-reaching and affect the girls, their families and the society.
Related: The Unmapped Journey: Adolescents, Poverty and Gender (Chapter 5) of the State of World Population 2005.

(http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/722_filename_adol_eng.pdf)