New Releases

Nearly half of all women are denied their bodily autonomy, says UNFPA's 2021 flagship State of World Population report. For the first time, a United Nations report focuses on bodily autonomy: the power and agency to make choices about your body, without fear of violence or having someone else decide for you. This lack of bodily autonomy has massive implications beyond the profound harms to individual women and girls: potentially depressing economic productivity, undercutting skills, and resulting in extra costs to health care and judicial systems. 2021 UNFPA World Population Report elaborates on these issues and more to raise awareness and increase visibility of all person’s right to bodily autonomy and self-determination.

The Research on Specialized Needs of Female Health Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic conducted by the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA Turkey and Hacettepe University Women's Research and Implementation Center (HUWRIC) has been released. The research draws attention to the experiences and needs of women health workers, which constitute 70% of the health workers globally, during the pandemic.

2020 has been an extraordinary year, with the emergence of a global pandemic caused by the highly infectious COVID-19 virus. While everything we used to know as “normal” has been changed in this process, one of the areas which have been affected by these changes has been survey research. Given that survey method, especially face-to-face surveys, is one of the top methods used to answer several questions in a wide range of areas, this process has also shown the importance of this method. This report has been prepared to analyze the pandemic’s effect on survey research and the related developments in the field focusing on the period between the beginning of the pandemic and December 2020. through the reviews of several survey organizations’ websites and expert interviews. Presenting an overview of issues ranging from international survey programs to innovations in data collection during the pandemic and related ethical issues, this report aims to enhance the understanding of the pandemic's effects on survey research and its future implications.

The "November Dialogues" event traditionally organized by Turkey Family Health and Planning Foundation (TAPV) has been realized with the team of "Adolescence in Times of Pandemic”. Having been held since 2017 by the joint efforts of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Turkey Family Health and Planning Foundation (TAPV), these diologue series which have been organized in İstanbul and Ankara with focus on"Adolescent Health" aimed to increase awareness and information exchange on adolescent development and health. As the November Dialogues 2020 has been realized in an environment where education system as well as needs and priorities of students have changed due to the pandemic, the event also aimed to inform teachers and parents about needs specific to this period and strengthen communcation and dialogue between student consultants and students.