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German Television Host, Alfred Biolek, Named UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador
30 November 2000
<p class="bodytext"> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today appointed German television producer and moderator, Alfred Biolek, its Goodwill Ambassador and Face to Face Campaign Spokesperson for Germany.</p>
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UNFPA Asks Donors to Help Women in Conflict
29 November 2000
<p class="bodytext"> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> –The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today asked the international donor community to help meet urgent reproductive health needs among victims of conflict and natural disasters around the world.</p>
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United Nations Population Fund Welcomes Netherlands and U.K. Action to Avert Condom Crisis
10 November 2000
<p class="bodytext"> <b>United Nations, New York</b> – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), today welcomed news that the Netherlands will contribute $39 million and the United Kingdom nearly $37 million to UNFPA to avert a crisis in contraceptive and other reproductive health supplies in developing countries.</p>
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Thoraya Obaid of Saudi Arabia Named as Next Executive Director of UNFPA; Dr. Nafis Sadik Welcomes Appointment
25 October 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> – Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), today welcomed the announcement by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he has appointed Ms. Thoraya Obaid of Saudi Arabia to head the Fund effective 1 January 2001.</p> <br/>
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Doctor Chea Samnang Appointed UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for Cambodia
20 October 2000
<p> <b>Phnom Penh</b> – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has named Chea Samnang, a doctor and actor, as its Goodwill Ambassador for Cambodia. Born on Christmas Day in 1971 in the capital, Phnom Penh, Dr. Samnang spent a lot of his childhood in the countryside, after his family fled the city during the rule of the Khmer Rouge. After the regime’s collapse, his family returned to Phnom Penh, where he went to school and completed his secondary education in 1988. He proceeded to a university in 1992 and became a doctor in 1999.</p>
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UN Population Fund Launches The State of World Population 2000
20 September 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATION, New York</b> - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today released The State of World Population 2000 report, Lives Together, Worlds Apart: Men and Women in a Time of Change.</p>
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Reproductive Health and Rights Are Crucial to Women’s Advancement, New Booklet Shows
03 July 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - Reproductive health and rights are lifetime concerns that are essential to women’s empowerment and gender equality. A new publication from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) explains why.</p>
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UNFPA Airlifts Emergency Supplies for Eritrea; Board Endorses Rapid-Response Fund
21 June 2000
United Nations, New York - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is airlifting about 10 metric tons of life-saving emergency safe motherhood and reproductive health supplies to help Eritreans internally displaced by the recent fighting between their country and Ethiopia.
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UNFPA Executive Director Urges Beijing+5 Session to Agree on Women’s Right to Health and Protection from Violence
12 June 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> -- Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), on Friday urged the General Assembly's “Beijing+5” special session to reach agreement on women’s right to health and their right to protection from violence.</p>
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UNFPA Organizes Panel Discussion on Best Practices in Promoting Gender Equality; Also Hosts Press Conference about Opinion Poll on U.S. Women's Interest in Global Issues
06 June 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - Recent experience confirms that improving women's access to health care results in a very definite, measurable improvement in women's well-being, Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said today.</p>
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UN Population Fund Hails Gates Foundation’s $57 Million Grant to Protect African Youth against HIV/AIDS
04 April 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - A $57 million grant from the <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</a> will tremendously strengthen efforts to protect young people in four African countries against HIV/AIDS, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced today.</p>
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Egyptian Health Minister and Mexican Family Planning Foundation Win United Nations Population Award
20 March 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - Ismail Awadallah Sallam, the Minister of Health and Population of Egypt, and a Mexican family planning organization, Fundacion Mexicana para la Planificacion Familiar (MEXFAM), will share the 2000 United Nations Population Award.</p>
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