Statements & speeches
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International Women's Day
08 March 2004
<p>Today, on International Women’s Day, let us focus on the urgent issue of women and AIDS. It is a cruel irony that the first place where women have achieved equality is among those infected with HIV.</p>
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Population and Development: Responses to the Challenges of the 21st Century
04 March 2004
<p>Good morning. It is a great pleasure to participate with you at this important and timely International Colloquium. It is especially gratifying to join you during the 10th anniversary year of the historic International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).</p>
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Women and Religion: Advancing Gender Equity in a Globalized World -- Women's Rights are Human Rights
28 February 2004
<p>It is a pleasure to be here today in Chiang Mai to deliver this statement on behalf of Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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Working Together to Prevent and Treat Fistula
18 February 2004
<p class="bodytext">It is a pleasure to be here at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. It is an honour to be here with the hospital’s founder, Catherine Hamlin, and all of the staff and patients.</p>
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ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly -- Partnering for Reproductive Health
18 February 2004
<p>It is a pleasure to be here today in the Ethiopian capital and it is an honour to address the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union.</p>
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Symposium on Population, MDGs and National Development -- Panel on Reproductive Health and Rights
17 February 2004
<p>It is exciting for me to be here in Addis Ababa for the first time and to participate in this important symposium. I would like to thank the Government of Ethiopia, USAID/Ethiopia and UNFPA/Ethiopia for making this symposium possible.</p>
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Press Conference to Launch Adding It Up: The Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care
03 February 2004
<p>I am very pleased to be here today with Sharon Camp of The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) to launch this important report, <i>Adding It Up</i>, on the benefits of investing in reproductive and sexual health programmes.</p>
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Closing Statement at the European Population Forum 2004
14 January 2004
<p>Over the past three days, we have been privileged to be part of this important meeting, to listen, to share and to learn from an array of distinguished experts and practitioners.</p>
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The Road from Cairo - Statement at the European Population Forum
12 January 2004
<p class="bodytext">We meet in Europe at a pivotal moment. Europe is both a continent of great diversity and a continent engaged in unprecedented integration and unification.</p>
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Stigma and Discrimination Stymie AIDS Prevention Efforts
01 December 2003
<p>World AIDS Day offers an occasion for communities and decision makers to examine progress made in countering the worst health crisis in modern history.</p>
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Statement on the Occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
25 November 2003
<p>Today, let us welcome the progress that has been made to reduce violence against women and girls, and question why more progress has not been achieved. Women and girls should be safe in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace and in school. Yet far too many live in fear. Countless others have paid with their lives. In conflict zones, gender-based violence has reached truly alarming levels.</p>
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International Conference on Reproductive Health: Key to Development and Poverty Reduction -- Panel on Youth: Agents of Change
21 November 2003
<p>UNFPA is honoured to take part in this important conference. We are particularly pleased to be joined by our partners: the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the World Bank, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. We are also thrilled that young people are participating in this conference.</p>
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