Statement of UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem to the Annual Session of the Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS

Remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the joint segment of the 2020 annual session of the Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS

City University of New York School of Public Health and Health Policy 2020 Commencement Address by Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

Statement of Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, at the High-level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Crisis of Yemen.

We are increasingly alarmed about the situation in Yemen.

COVID-19 is spreading rapidly across the country already experiencing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, driven by an unabated conflict. But we are ready to stay and deliver life-saving assistance to those who need it.

We must accelerate efforts if we are to achieve our global ambition of ending fistula by 2030.

LGBTQI people should not face discrimination nor fear retribution for seeking health care amid the COVID-19 crisis. 

Conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic present a significant threat to life in Libya. The health and safety of the country’s entire population are at risk. Close to 400,000 Libyans have been displaced since the start of the conflict nine years ago – around half of them within the past year, since the attack on the capital, Tripoli, started.

Here are 3 ways to say THANK YOU to midwives battling the pandemic in 2020, the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife.

Life goes on despite the pandemic; pregnancy and childbirth are no exception.

Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem 

Eliminating the systemic racism caused by enslavement is crucial to achieving a world of universal rights and choices for all.