News
News
10 December 2018
Statement
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem
On this day, 70 years ago, United Nations Member States adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which affirms that “all human beings... Read more
3 December 2018
Statement
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem
To end AIDS, we must educate, empower and ensure everyone, everywhere, has access to sexual and reproductive health services and information. ... Read more
25 November 2018
Statement
Statement by the Heads of UN agencies, UNFPA, UNDP, UNICEF and UN WOMEN, calling for solidarity with survivors and survivor advocates and women’s human rights defenders who are working to prevent and... Read more
17 October 2018
Press Release
UNITED NATIONS, New York--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. When people... Read more
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