<p>The UN Committee for the Population Award is calling for nominations to be submitted for the 2012 prize.</p>

<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b>—With thousands of experts gathering in Dakar, Senegal, this week for the largest family planning meeting of its kind, UNFPA is calling on world leaders to invest in voluntary family planning, not only to save and improve the lives of women and children, but also to empower people, strengthen health systems and reduce poverty.</p>

<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York—In response to the different states of high alert across Central America, UNFPA has been mobilizing resources to provide lifesaving reproductive health care in the region.</p>

<p>LONDON—In five days, world population is projected to reach 7 billion. How we respond now will determine whether we have a healthy, sustainable and prosperous future or one that is marked by inequalities, environmental decline and economic setbacks, according to The State of World Population 2011 report, published today by UNFPA.</p>

<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York –  UNFPA  today released a world anthem today entitled <i>United.</i> Performed by more than 50 musicians from 13 countries, <i>United</i> commemorates United Nations Day and marks the beginning of a week-long countdown to 31 October, when the world population is projected to reach 7 billion.</p>

<p>ISLAMABAD—In response to humanitarian crisis in Pakistan, UNFPA is providing lifesaving assistance to communities affected by the recent floods.</p>

<p>NEW YORK—The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised the involvement of leading businesses in the global effort to tackle women’s and children’s health.</p>

<p>NEW YORK, New York—A high-profile group of current and former presidents and prime ministers today called on global leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City to provide long-promised voluntary family planning services to 215 million women in the nations that are expected to fuel the greatest population growth the world has ever seen.</p> <p> </p>

<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York – Government, UN and civil society leaders today called for a new approach to women’s healthcare to address the devastating impact of non-­?communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases in low and middle-­income countries.</p>

<p>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Responding to the Government’s call for international assistance, UNFPA is moving rapidly to deliver urgently needed reproductive health services to flood-affected people in Pakistan as part of a coordinated United Nations humanitarian response.</p>

<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York—Earth’s population will reach seven billion on 31 October, a milestone that offers unprecedented challenges and opportunities to all of humanity, according to UNFPA.</p>

<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York—Fifty participants from 12 developing countries agreed yesterday on a Call to Action that urges national governments, civil society and the private sector to provide stronger leadership in reproductive health commodity security.</p>