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17 October 2018
News
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Across the world, choices are restricted for too many women, says UNFPA’s flagship report, The State of World Population 2018, released today.
The freedom to make... Read more
11 October 2018
Statement
Dr. Natalia Kanem
Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund
Statement on the Occasion of the International Day of the Girl
11 October 2018
We believe in the power of girls to... Read more
10 October 2018
Statement
Message of Dr. Natalia Kanem
Executive Director of UNFPA
World Mental Health Day
10 October 2018
Today on World Mental Health Day, UNFPA calls for strengthened action to provide services for the... Read more
1 October 2018
Statement
Statement on the Occasion of the International Day of Older Persons by Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, Dr. Natalia Kanem
One in nine persons today is aged 60 or... Read more
21 August 2018
News
The Government of Nepal has initiated preparations for the 2021 Population and Housing Census. The next census will be conducted in a new era – under the 2015 Constitution of Nepal and new federal... Read more
19 August 2018
Statement
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Humanitarian Day 2018
Women and girls uprooted by war or disaster are at heightened risk of rape, exploitation and abuse. Yet reaching... Read more
12 August 2018
News
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on International Youth Day 2018
We want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and make good on our pledge to leave no one behind. We... Read more
11 July 2018
Statement
Statement of UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Population Day, 12 July 2018
Fifty years ago, the world declared that “parents have a basic human right to determine freely and... Read more
2 July 2018
News
Palash Devi Rajdhobi never thought she would experience the relief of living without obstetric fistula, a serious and tragic childbirth injury which affects some women who have been through difficult... Read more
23 May 2018
Statement
Statement of UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, 23 May 2018
Pregnancy and childbirth should be among the happiest of occasions in a woman’s... Read more