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  • 11 Jun 2024
  • Speech

Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza

I greet you in Peace – what the people of Gaza, this region and the world so desperately need, is Peace. 

Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza

I greet you in Peace – what the people of Gaza, this region and the world so desperately need, is Peace. 

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  • 05 Jun 2024
  • Speech

Statement by Dr. Natalia Kanem Executive Director, UNFPA at the Annual Session of the Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS

Good morning. Buenos dias. We’ve prepared a video showing you some of the energy and excitement of the first two ICPD30 Global Dialogues, the youth dialogue in Benin and the demographic diversity…

Statement by Dr. Natalia Kanem Executive Director, UNFPA at the Annual Session…

Good morning. Buenos dias. We’ve prepared a video showing you some of the energy and excitement of the first two ICPD30 Global…

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  • 31 May 2024
  • Statement

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee: No time to lose as famine stalks millions in Sudan amid intense fighting and access denials

NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME/WASHINGTON – Time is running out for millions of people in Sudan who are at imminent risk of famine, displaced from their lands, living under bombardments, and cut off from…

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee: No time to lose…

NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME/WASHINGTON – Time is running out for millions of people in Sudan who are at imminent risk of famine,…

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  • 31 May 2024
  • Press Release

Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark announced as Patron of UNFPA

The Royal House of Denmark has announced that Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark will engage as Patron of UNFPA, The United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.

Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark announced as Patron of UNFPA

The Royal House of Denmark has announced that Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark will engage as Patron of UNFPA, The United Nations…

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  • 30 May 2024
  • Press Release

UNFPA Launches World’s First Initiative to Include Reproductive Health in ESG Standards

First-of-its kind metrics to track progress on key social issues in the workplace including maternity leave, fertility treatments, sexual harassment protocols

UNFPA Launches World’s First Initiative to Include Reproductive Health in ESG…

First-of-its kind metrics to track progress on key social issues in the workplace including maternity leave, fertility treatments…

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  • 28 May 2024
  • Press Release

Climate emergency threatens 41 million people, their livelihoods and health care in low-elevation coastal areas in Latin America and Caribbean

Tens of millions of people living in low-elevation coastal areas in Latin America and the Caribbean are facing the consequences of extreme weather events that threaten their lives and livelihoods and…

Climate emergency threatens 41 million people, their livelihoods and health…

Tens of millions of people living in low-elevation coastal areas in Latin America and the Caribbean are facing the consequences…

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  • 20 May 2024
  • Statement

Funding gap, increased insecurity jeopardize the lives of Rohingya women and girls

Seven years after the Rohingya people were driven from their homes in Myanmar, close to one million remain stranded in the refugee camps of Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district – over half of them women…

Funding gap, increased insecurity jeopardize the lives of Rohingya women and…

Seven years after the Rohingya people were driven from their homes in Myanmar, close to one million remain stranded in the…

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  • 16 May 2024
  • Speech

ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development Closing Ceremony

Celebration! Dialogue! A marvelous global dialogue these past days. Very special thanks once again to our truly wonderful host, the Government of Bangladesh, and our outstanding co-sponsors, the…

ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development…

Celebration! Dialogue! A marvelous global dialogue these past days. Very special thanks once again to our truly wonderful host…

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  • 15 May 2024
  • Speech

ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development Opening Ceremony

For UNFPA, it is an honor to facilitate this Global Dialogue on ICPD30 along with our outstanding host, the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, and in partnership with the Governments…

ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development…

For UNFPA, it is an honor to facilitate this Global Dialogue on ICPD30 along with our outstanding host, the Government of the…

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