The global trend towards smaller families is a reflection of people making reproductive choices to have as few or as many children as they want, when they want.

Globally, half of students aged 13–15 experience peer-to-peer violence in and around school. This violence has short-term effects on their educational achievement and leaves a long-term impression on their futures.

Every day in developing countries, 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth. Nine in 10 of these births occur within marriage or a union. This has consequences on the health, education, employment and rights of an untold millions of girls.

L'analyse de la réponse du secteur de l'éducation en matière de lutte contre le VIH/SIDA dans les quatre pays du Maghreb, l'Algérie, le Maroc, la Mauritanie et la Tunisie, fournit des informations spécifiques à chaque pays en identifiant l'existant et en soulignant les besoins

A new policy brief from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), Youth in a Global World, describes what it's like to grow up in today's world, with a special focus on four major experiences in the lives of young people: schooling, health, marriage, and childbearing.

The document summarizes priority areas for WHO action based on global evidence. Improving the health and development of children and adolescents means that WHO will need to shape its implementation of the strategy to the epidemiological needs of specific regions and countries.