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Bill & Melinda Gates, Asian Parliamentary Group, Win 2010 United Nations Population Award
10 March 2010
<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York — Bill and Melinda Gates and the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development have won this year’s United Nations Population Award. Announced here today, the Award is given annually to individuals and institutions for outstanding work in population and in improving the health of individuals.</p>
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UNFPA Supports Health Services for Resettled Women in Northern Sri Lanka
09 March 2010
<p>COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Getting proper health care is a challenge for thousands of Sri Lankans who have recently gone home to former conflict zones. UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is stepping up its support for the health and safety of women and girls who are returning, particularly those who are pregnant.</p>
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Mobile Teams Assist Mongolian Mothers Endangered by Dzud Disaster
03 March 2010
<p>ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — Mongolia’s extreme winter conditions are preventing expectant mothers from reaching health facilities, putting their lives at risk. In response, UNFPA is supporting mobile medical teams that have brought life-saving care to women in isolated districts in 12 provinces.</p>
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Appeal Launched for Emergency Assistance to Thousands of Pregnant Women at High Risk in Haiti
15 January 2010
<p>UNITED NATIONS — Estimates that there could be as many as 63,000 pregnant women among the 3 million people affected by Haiti’s earthquake have led to an urgent appeal to meet their emergency maternal health needs.</p>
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Maternal Health Supplies Being Rushed to Haiti
14 January 2010
<p>UNITED NATIONS — UNFPA is working as part of the coordinated United Nations response and with other partners to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to those who have been affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti.</p>
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UNFPA Honoured with Human Rights Award
10 December 2009
<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, warmly welcomes the human rights award presented today by the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) to UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid. The Louis B. Sohn Human Rights Award, established in 1997, is given annually to individuals for substantial contributions to human rights.</p>
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Major Australian Contribution to Improve Women's Health and Rights
04 December 2009
<p>UNITED NATIONS — The Government of Australia is contributing $A42.5 million to support efforts by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to improve reproductive health and safe motherhood for women in developing countries, especially those in Asia and the Pacific.</p>
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Experts and Policy Makers Renew their Commitment to Family Planning
19 November 2009
<p>KAMPALA — The largest conference on family planning in fifteen years concluded yesterday with nearly 1,300 international experts, policy makers and representatives of civil society reaffirming their commitment to family planning and to revitalizing it by sharing research findings and best practices.</p>
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Women Central to Efforts to Deal With Climate Change, Says New UNFPA Report
18 November 2009
<p>LONDON - Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, concludes The State of World Population 2009, released today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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Largest International Family Planning Conference in 15 Years Convenes in Uganda
12 November 2009
<p>KAMPALA - Over 1,200 leading policymakers, researchers, academics and health professionals from 59 countries will meet in Kampala, Uganda, from 15 to 18 November, where they will share the latest scientific findings and refocus the world’s attention on family planning’s contribution to development.</p>
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Maternal Mortality Halved in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, but Too Many Women Still Die Giving Life
12 November 2009
<p>ISTANBUL – Decision-makers and government officials from 20 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have pledged to step up the fight against needless deaths and suffering resulting from pregnancy and childbirth.</p>
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Lawmakers Commit to Women's Health and Rights by 2015
28 October 2009
<p>ADDIS ABABA — Lawmakers from 115 countries reaffirmed their support today to the principles and goals of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and underlined the indispensable role of its Programme of Action in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)</p>
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