Mary Oloiparuni was 13 when she was mutilated. Restrained in a doorway early one morning in her home, she was cut, bled profusely and experienced agonizing pain. The scarring she endured then continues to cause her pain today, 19 years later. It has made giving birth to each of her five children an excruciating and harrowing experience.

Statement of UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem to the First Regular Session of the 2019 Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS.

Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on Human Rights Day 2018

Remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the annual High-Level Pledging Conference for the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund.

More than 1 billion people live with a disability, and nearly 200 million are between the ages of 10 and 24. Yet young people with disabilities are often invisible in statistics, excluded from education and health services, and discriminated against in their own communities.

In the past 12 days, more than 150 women and girls have sought assistance after suffering sexual violence, including rape, near Bentiu in South Sudan. We echo the statement of the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for South Sudan condemning these abhorrent attacks.

Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World AIDS Day 2018

To commemorate this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Secretary-General’s UNiTE Campaign is calling upon us to stand in solidarity with survivors and survivor advocates and women’s human rights defenders who are working to prevent and end violence against women and girls.

Opening remarks by Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UNFPA, at the Arab Regional Conference on Population and Development in Beirut, Lebanon.

We believe in the power of girls to change this world for the better. Let’s give them the chance.

Today on World Mental Health Day, UNFPA calls for strengthened action to provide services for the mental health of young people.