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7 March 2020
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I am Generation Equality: Working together to achieve a gender-equal world
This International Women's Day, we celebrate the icons who blazed the trail towards gender equality. We now look to today’s... Read more
1 December 2019
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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World AIDS Day
This World AIDS Day, UNFPA recognizes the vital role of communities in delivering sexual and reproductive health services... Read more
25 November 2019
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Statement by Dr Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 2019
The crime of rape is a severe human... Read more
14 November 2019
Press Release
NAIROBI, Kenya, 14 November 2019 - The Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 concluded today in the Kenyan capital, with partners making bold commitments to transform the world by ending all maternal deaths,... Read more
12 August 2019
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UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem Statement on International Youth Day 2019
From their communities to their capital cities, young people everywhere are demanding their rights, as affirmed 25... Read more
11 July 2019
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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem
Her life. Her choice. Our future.
Women have a right to make their own decisions about whether, when and how often to become pregnant. That... Read more
23 May 2019
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Shame, isolation and segregation are among the indignities faced by the hundreds of thousands of women and girls worldwide who suffer from obstetric fistula, an injury of the birth canal after... Read more
9 March 2019
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Statement for International Women's Day 2019
Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UNFPA
Everywhere, new technologies and innovations are transforming the way we work, the way we communicate, the way we... Read more
3 March 2019
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Remarks by Dr. Leila Joudane, UNFPA Representative in Iran, on the occasion of Internatioal Women's Day and National Women's Day in Iran
Charity Grand Prix Alpine Skiing Competition, Tehran, Iran,... Read more
27 January 2019
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“We are celebrating forty years of hard work to improve women’s lives as core agents of development; we are here to share the strong will to face challenges; we are here to present the positive... Read more