Statements and speeches
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Child Marriage: Advancing the Global Agenda
04 June 2004
<p>Good morning. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this panel on child marriage. Before I begin, I would like to say how sad I am that the Global Health Council lost its funding partly because of the participation of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in this year’s programme.</p>
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Statement on the occasion of the International Day of Families
15 May 2004
<p>Today, as we commemorate the International Day of Families, we also mark the tenth anniversary of the 1994 International Year of the Family.</p>
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Speak Truth to Power - United Nations: Listening to the Silent Voice of Mothers of the World
09 May 2004
<p>Thank you, Latika, for the introduction. It is amazing, as Latika has said, that two young women, one a Hindu from India and the other from Muslim Saudi Arabia met 31 years ago and established a sisterhood of the spirit that remains since then, despite the passage of time, and geography.</p> <p> </p>
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United Nations Commission on Population and Development
06 May 2004
<p>The closing ceremony of the 37th session of the Commission on Population and Development comes nearly seven weeks later than we had anticipated.</p>
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International Session on Population and Development - ICPD at 10: Moving Forward
04 May 2004
<p>I would like to extend my warm appreciation to the Government of Mexico for inviting me to be part of the launching of the 10-year report on the national implementation of the Programme of Action of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).</p>
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Cairo at 10: Moving Forward
22 March 2004
<p>It gives me great pleasure to address the opening of this thirty-seventh session of the Commission on Population and Development. Let me begin, Mr. Chairman, by congratulating you and the members of your Bureau on your election as officers of the Commission this year.</p>
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Health and the Links to Nutrition: Maternal Health is Key
22 March 2004
<p>Today, at this second, a baby girl is being born somewhere in the world. She is being born to a mother who is undernourished. The mother herself is young, 18 years old. It is likely that the baby is stunted in height and low in weight, even though she was born at full term.</p>
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Cairo and Beyond: Reproductive Rights and Culture
09 March 2004
<p>Today, 9 March 2004, at the conclusion of the two-day meeting, “Cairo and Beyond: Reproductive Rights and Culture”, organized by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and the Netherlands Government, we reaffirm our commitment and cooperation to implement the Programme of Action that was adopted at the International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994.</p>
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Beyond Cairo: Reproductive Rights and Culture
08 March 2004
<p>I hope you are all rested, both from travel and from our surprise culinary activity of last night. It was a wonderful idea. It was not only a very welcome ice-breaker, which is critical to good dialogue, but it was also an “equalizer” – Prime Ministers, Ministers, government officials, non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders and activists, staff of UNFPA, along with our colleagues from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Development Cooperation were all equal cooks!</p>
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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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