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Diene Keita, UNFPA deputy executive director – programme, addressing representatives of more than 40 countries from Europe, North America and Central Asia at the ICPD30 regional conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
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The President of Zimbabwe, H.E. Emmerson Mnangagwa, and UNFPA Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Director Lydia Zigomo open the international inter-ministerial conference of the Partners for Population and Development on 9 October 2023.
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ICPD30 Regional Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

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Giuliua Vallese, UNFPA deputy regional director, addresses more than 100 government and civil society leaders on 26 September 2023 at the regional ICPD30 conference on sexual and reproductive health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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The Sixth Regional Review of the International Conference on Population and Development in the Arab Region

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Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA executive director, addressing the sixth regional review of the Conference on Population and Development in the Arab region.
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Pregnant women in Gaza urgently need life-saving care

Pregnant women in Gaza urgently need life-saving care

“Pregnancy in these circumstances is an extraordinary suffering,” says Seba (28), who is 9 months pregnant and has two children.

People in Gaza don’t have water, food, enough blankets, hygiene facilities, and the medical assistance they need.

Let Seba share her heartbreaking story and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency— is providing life-saving support to pregnant women in shelters in the southern Gaza Strip. Learn more.

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Midwife Rahna visits with new mother, 20-year-old Hanifa, whose home was destroyed in the 7 October earthquake that struck Herat province  in Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan / Ahmad Jamshid Qazizadah
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Hospitals in the south of Gaza are struggling to assist pregnant women and newborns

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Hospitals in the south of Gaza are struggling to assist pregnant women and newborns

Hospitals in the south of Gaza are struggling to assist pregnant women and newborns

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UNFPA

Publication date

2014

Author

United Nations

Number of pages

296

Publications

International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action

Twentieth Anniversary Edition

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An unequal world: Designing a safer, healthier place for women and girls in Argentina, Cameroon and Uganda

calendar_today18 December 2023

Equity 2030 seeks to redesign the world with women in mind. © UNFPA
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