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UNFPA Welcomes OIC Emphasis on Development and Poverty Eradication
14 March 2008
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> - UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, welcomes the focus on peace and economic development at the 11th Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) that is taking place in Dakar, Senegal.</p>
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UNFPA Urges Action to Meet Global Shortfalls in Health Workers
12 March 2008
<p class="bodytext"> <strong>KAMPALA, Uganda</strong> – UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is lending its voice to health advocates from around the globe who have issued an urgent call to action to meet severe health workforce shortages in Africa and Asia.</p>
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Barbados Policy Maker; Family Care International (FCI) Win 2008 UN Population Award
05 March 2008
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — A policy maker who advocates population and gender issues, Dame Billie Antoinette Miller of Barbados, and a New York-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that helps save women’s lives in developing countries, Family Care International (FCI), have won this year’s <a href="http://www.unfpa.org/about/popaward/index.htm">United Nations Population Award</a>.</p>
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UN Agencies Unite Against Female Genital Mutilation
27 February 2008
<p> <strong>New York</strong> – Expressing their commitment to the elimination of female genital mutilation, also called female genital cutting and female genital mutilation/cutting, 10 United Nations agencies* pledged in a <a href="http://www.unfpa.org/publications/detail.cfm?ID=361&filterListType=">statement</a> today to support governments, communities, and women and girls to abandon the practice within a generation, with a major reduction in many countries by 2015, the year the Millennium Development Goals are set to be achieved.</p>
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UNFPA to Call for Higher Investments in Women During United Nations Global Meeting
21 February 2008
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Government officials, experts, and representatives of non-governmental organizations will meet here next week to evaluate investments made so far in achieving equality between men and women.</p>
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UNFPA Scales Up Efforts to Save Millions of Women
14 February 2008
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>— A new thematic fund for maternal health has been created to boost global efforts to reduce the number of women dying in pregnancy and childbirth.</p>
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Pregnant Women, their Children, Fleeing Violence in Chad Face Increased Risk, UNFPA Says
06 February 2008
<p> <strong>DAKAR, Senegal —</strong> As tens of thousands of people flee the ongoing violence in Chad, concerns are being raised by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, for the health and safety of expectant mothers and their children. </p>
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UNFPA Assists Kenyans Displaced by Post-Election Violence
18 January 2008
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> – UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is providing urgently needed medical equipment and supplies to the thousands of people displaced by political violence in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi as well as affected areas in other parts of the country, including Nakuru, Eldoret, Kisumu and Mombasa.</p>
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Largest Number of Donors Ever Set Fund-Raising Record for UNFPA
14 January 2008
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — 2007 was another record year for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, in terms of the financial support it has received from the international community.</p>
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Experts Call for the Protection of the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Person with Disabilities
19 December 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>BRASILIA</strong>—Experts from around the world met here this week to highlight the importance of including persons with disabilities—particularly their right to sexual and reproductive health—in national policies and programmes around the world.</p>
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UNFPA Mourns Loss of Three Staff Members, and Others, in Algiers Attack
14 December 2007
<p align="left">UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, mourns the loss of three of its staff members and all persons who died as a result of Tuesday’s bombing in Algiers.</p>
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UNFPA Requests $38 Million to Assist Crisis-Stricken in 24 Countries in 2008
11 December 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, Geneva/New York</strong> — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is requesting that international donors contribute $38 million for projects to address the urgent reproductive health needs of refugees, internally displaced persons and others in 24 countries affected by conflict or natural disaster.</p>
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