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Ten Years on, UNFPA Reports Uneven Progress in Implementing Landmark Population and Development Consensus
15 September 2004
<p> <b>LONDON</b>—Countries have made impressive progress in carrying out a bold action plan that links poverty alleviation to women’s rights and reproductive health, emphasizes <a href="http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2004/">The State of World Population 2004</a> report by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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MEDIA ADVISORY: New UN Report To Highlight Progress and Challenges 10 Years after Landmark Population and Development Consensus
03 September 2004
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b>—Countries have made real progress in carrying out the 20-year action plan of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, which links poverty alleviation to women’s empowerment and universal access to reproductive health.</p>
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More Funding Needed to Back Strong Commitment to Reproductive Health and Women's Rights, UNFPA Executive Director Tells NGO Global Meeting
31 August 2004
<p> <b>LONDON</b>—Developing countries are making real gains in promoting reproductive health and women’s rights, but they are hampered by inadequate support from rich nations and serious problems persist, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund said today.</p>
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Hepatitis Outbreak Could Cause Maternal Deaths to Skyrocket in Sudan
11 August 2004
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b>—One day after an outbreak of Hepatitis E was confirmed in internal refugee camps in all three states in Sudan’s Darfur region, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is calling for immediate action to avert an epidemic among displaced Sudanese, warning that pregnant women are especially vulnerable.</p>
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Sexual Violence in Sudan Camps Often Preventable, Insists UNFPA
04 August 2004
<p> <b>EL FASHER, Sudan</b>—Every night, women leave the relative safety of the Aboushok internal refugee camp to collect firewood. During the day they sell the wood to buy food for their families.</p>
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Thoraya Obaid Thanks 34 Million Friends of UNFPA as Contributions Top $2 Million
04 August 2004
<p class="bodytext"> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b>—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, warmly welcomed today’s <a href="http://www.34millionfriends.org/" target="_blank">announcement by 34 Million Friends of UNFPA</a> that the grassroots effort has raised more than $2 million to support the Fund’s work.</p>
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UNFPA Regrets U. S. Administration's Decision Not to Restore Funding
16 July 2004
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - The U.S. administration’s decision not to release $34 million appropriated by Congress for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is regrettable, UNFPA said today.</p>
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Action Against AIDS Must Address Epidemic's Increasing Impact on Women, Says UN Report
14 July 2004
<p> <b>BANGKOK</b> – Action against HIV/AIDS that does not confront gender inequality is doomed to failure, according to a report released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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UNFPA Welcomes UK's Fund Increase to an Annual $36.4 Million For Four Years
09 July 2004
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b>—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has welcomed the decision of the United Kingdom Government to increase its annual contributions to UNFPA from about $30.2 million to some $36.4 million to expand access to reproductive health services, support safe motherhood initiatives and HIV/AIDS prevention in developing countries.</p>
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Latin America and Caribbean Set To Adopt Declaration on Population and Development
02 July 2004
<p> <b>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico</b>—Latin American and Caribbean countries are set to reaffirm support for the Programme of Action of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development.</p>
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Anti-Poverty Efforts Must Increase Respect For Human Rights, Says UNFPA Head At Meeting of the Americas
29 June 2004
<p> <b>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico</b>—Urgently needed work to reduce poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean must go hand in hand with efforts to increase respect for human rights, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, said today. Widespread poverty, inequality and HIV/AIDS have inhibited progress in the region, she added.</p>
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Countries Committed to Population Issues and Reproductive Health, New Global Survey Shows
21 June 2004
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, Geneva</b>—Reproductive health and rights are becoming an integral part of national agenda in an increasing number of countries, and more policy makers are committed to safe motherhood.</p>
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