Statements and speeches
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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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Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day of the Midwife 2024
02 May 2024
Right now, around the world, millions of lives are in the hands of midwives. Whether they are wading through flood waters to reach pregnant women or delivering babies amid the rubble of an earthquake, midwives are the unsung heroes of community health services. Thanks to midwives, births are safer. The sexual and reproductive health care they provide is more attuned to women’s needs, desires and local cultural practices.
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Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the Democratic Republic of the Congo
30 April 2024
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME/WASHINGTON – Escalating conflict is driving record levels of gender-based violence, displacement and hunger in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), threatening to push the country to the brink of catastrophe without urgent international action.
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Opening Remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the Commission on Population and Development 2024
29 April 2024
Opening remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the 57th session of the Commission on Population and Development in New York.
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Opening Remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem, at the General Assembly ICPD30 Commemorative Event
29 April 2024
Opening remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the informal plenary meeting of the General Assembly to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development in New York.
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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on efforts to repeal the ban on female genital mutilation in the Gambia
17 April 2024
Turning back the clock on FGM in the Gambia would deprive women and girls of their rights
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Opening remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the launch of the State of World Population 2024
17 April 2024
Opening remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the launch of the State of World Population 2024 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva. (Check against delivery.)
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Opening remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the 3rd Session of the Permanent Forum for People of African Descent
15 April 2024
Opening remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the 3rd Session of the Permanent Forum for People of African Descent
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