Statements & speeches
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Joint statement by UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS and UN Women calling for sexual and reproductive health and rights for all
11 July 2024
In April, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, governments renewed their commitment and determination to accelerate the implementation of the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the principles of which are embedded in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including commitments to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services and to advance reproductive rights.
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Opening Remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Technology Shaping an Equitable Future for All
27 June 2024
I welcome you to the ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Technology. UNFPA is very pleased to facilitate –in partnership with our co-Chairs, the Government of the Bahamas and the Government of Luxembourg. Over these precious couple of days, we will learn more about the interaction of technology and equitable development.
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10th International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
19 June 2024
Excellencies, distinguished guests, dear colleagues and dear friends, I greet you in peace – the fervent wish of women and girls everywhere in the world. Calls to stop the bombs echo around the world today. Yet peace is only possible when we end the scourge of conflict-related sexual violence.
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Hearing and healing survivors of sexual violence is essential to lasting peace
18 June 2024
Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
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Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza
11 June 2024
I greet you in Peace – what the people of Gaza, this region and the world so desperately need, is Peace.
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Statement by Dr. Natalia Kanem Executive Director, UNFPA at the 2024 Annual Session of the Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS
05 June 2024
Good morning. Buenos dias. We’ve prepared a video showing you some of the energy and excitement of the first two ICPD30 Global Dialogues, the youth dialogue in Benin and the demographic diversity dialogue in Bangladesh. Shall we view it now?
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Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee: No time to lose as famine stalks millions in Sudan amid intense fighting and access denials
31 May 2024
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME/WASHINGTON – Time is running out for millions of people in Sudan who are at imminent risk of famine, displaced from their lands, living under bombardments, and cut off from humanitarian assistance.
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Funding gap, increased insecurity jeopardize the lives of Rohingya women and girls
20 May 2024
Seven years after the Rohingya people were driven from their homes in Myanmar, close to one million remain stranded in the refugee camps of Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district – over half of them women and girls. Their current and future prospects are far from certain.
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ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development Closing Ceremony
16 May 2024
Celebration! Dialogue! A marvelous global dialogue these past days. Very special thanks once again to our truly wonderful host, the Government of Bangladesh, and our outstanding co-sponsors, the Governments of Japan and Bulgaria.
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ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development Opening Ceremony
15 May 2024
For UNFPA, it is an honor to facilitate this Global Dialogue on ICPD30 along with our outstanding host, the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, and in partnership with the Governments of Japan and Bulgaria.
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Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the potential invasion in Rafah
05 May 2024
Close to seven months of war has inflicted unimaginable suffering on the people of Gaza, including hundreds of thousands of pregnant and breastfeeding women and newborns. Many have been displaced multiple times, living in inhumane conditions with too little to eat, hardly any access to medical care and nowhere to go. People are hungry, exhausted and scared; and they cannot keep running.
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The world must not abandon the women and girls of Haiti
03 May 2024
Every day brings new horrors for women and girls in Port-au-Prince, as violence has reached terrifying levels in recent months. Residents of the Haitian capital and surrounding areas live in fear as armed gangs rape, kidnap and murder with impunity.
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