<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, Brussels/New York</strong> — The <a href="http://www.unfpa.org/emergencies/symposium06/index.htm">International Symposium on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Beyond</a> will be the first major international assembly dedicated exclusively to the issue of sexual violence among war-affected populations.</p>

DILI, Timor-Leste</strong> — Pregnant women living in camps around Dili are receiving maternal care services and now have the option of being transferred to the national hospital before delivery, said Hernando Agudelo, the Timor-Leste Representative of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>DILI, Timor-Leste</strong> — Safeguarding the health of an estimated 3,000 pregnant women left homeless by strife in the Timorese capital is a priority for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

UNITED NATIONS, New York — Twenty-five years into the AIDS pandemic, leaders of the world united here on Friday and adopted a political declaration that commits them to pursuing all necessary efforts to scale up national responses to achieve universal access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support in slightly more than forty months.

<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Winners of the United Nations Population Award 2006 will receive their medals this week at an official ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>KATHMANDU, Nepal</strong> — A resolution passed by Nepali legislators last week is a milestone in the advancement of women’s civil and political rights, the Representative of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, said today.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — To reverse the spread of AIDS, women must have greater control of their bodies, of their lives, as well as of public policies and budgets, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, demanded today.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>JAKARTA, Indonesia</strong> — A United Nations team is assessing the health needs of 100,000 Indonesian earthquake survivors, including emergency care for pregnant women and other reproductive health services.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — As the world marks 25 years of AIDS, representatives of the international community will gather at the United Nations to take stock of global efforts to confront the pandemic.</p>

<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — The newly relaunched <a href="http://www.unfpa.org/aids_clock/">AIDS Clock</a>, an initiative of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has been counting the relentless toll of the epidemic since 1997.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti</strong> — The results of the first census held in Haiti in the past 24 years reveal that half of the country’s population is younger than 20 years old, unemployment is a staggering 33 per cent and school attendance rate is as low as 49 per cent.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>THE HAGUE/NEW YORK</strong> — Urgent support to midwives, especially in developing countries, would save the lives of 5 million women and prevent 80 million illnesses from pregnancy or childbirth by 2015, say the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, on the International Day of the Midwife, 5 May.</p>