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12 August 2019
Statement
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on International Youth Day
From their communities to their capital cities, young people everywhere are demanding their rights, as affirmed 25... Read more
11 July 2019
Statement
Want to improve women’s lives and countries’ prospects for prosperity?
Expand contraceptive choice.
Her life. Her choice. Our future.
Women have a right to make their own decisions about whether,... Read more
25 April 2019
News
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Too often, the first message a girl receives about her body is that it is imperfect – too fat or too thin, too dark or too freckled. But for some girls, the message is that... Read more
10 April 2019
News
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 10 April 2019— The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women, empowering them to govern their own... Read more
6 February 2019
Statement
Mary Oloiparuni was 13 when she was mutilated. Restrained in a doorway early one morning in her home, she was cut, bled profusely and experienced agonizing pain. The scarring she endured then... Read more
25 November 2018
Statement
To commemorate this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Secretary-General’s UNiTE Campaign is calling upon us to stand in solidarity with survivors and... 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
6 June 2018
News
MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Year on year, millions of women and adolescents in 155 countries and territories have been progressively able to exercise their sexual and reproductive health... Read more
13 May 2018
News
Fifty years ago, on 13 May, the world declared family planning to be a basic human right.
Until family planning is a universally available choice, this human right will not be fully realized. UNFPA... Read more
13 May 2018
News
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Fifty years ago, on 13 May, the world declared family planning to be a basic human right.
Throughout all of human history, efforts to plan, avoid or delay pregnancy had... Read more