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17 September 2020
Press Release
New High-Level Commission will ensure promises made at Nairobi Summit are kept as COVID-19 pandemic threatens to turn back the clock for women’s health and rights
A new High-Level Commission of advocates, experts and activists was established today to help commitments to women’s health and rights made at the 2019 Nairobi Summit on ICPD25…
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15 June 2020
Statement
Bending the Arc of History Towards Justice
This is a moment of suffering for many people, especially people of African descent. We at UNFPA stand in solidarity in the global fight against racism and support the peaceful…
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28 April 2020
Press Release
New UNFPA projections predict calamitous impact on women’s health as COVID-19 pandemic continues
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, the number of women unable to access family planning, facing unintended pregnancies, gender-based violence and other harmful practices could…
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21 April 2020
News
UNFPA alongside its beneficiaries to warn against Covid-19
On Friday April 10th, 2020, UNFPA organized dignity kits distribution to 350 vulnerable women and girls of reproductive age quarantined in Makombe site, in Rumonge Province (South…
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27 September 2019
News
Celebration of ICPD 25th Anniversary in Burundi
"I had a very bad company and my two great friends fell pregnant early; I was scared, I did not want to live the same experience, "shared Noëlla Miburo, a 19-year-old girl living…
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05 August 2019
News
25 Years of ICPD, what's changed in Burundi? Parliamentarians discussed on it
The United Nations Population Fund has organized with the Burundi Parliament a debate to analyze the implementation of the commitments of the International Conference on…
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24 May 2019
News
People-centered development is critical for Africa's future to ensure the Africa We Want
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, recommitted to the revolutionary decision taken at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development…
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23 May 2019
News
After 40 years of suffering and shame because of fistula, finally a respite
"For 40 years, I lived with obstetric fistula and that's all I got from life," shares with tears Marguerite Sinzobakwira, a 63-year-old woman met in the Urumuri center waiting for…
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23 January 2019
Press Release
The Nairobi Summit to Advance the ICPD Programme of Action
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 18 January 2019—The Government of the Republic of Kenya and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced the convening of a high-level conference…
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