Speech

Statement of the Executive Director to the First Regular Session of the Executive Board 2019

23 January 2019
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Canada funding supports sustainable reproductive health and protection services in Iraq

08 May 2018
New funding from Canada will support sexual and reproductive health services for women and girls in Iraq, as they rebuild their lives after conflict. © UNFPA Iraq
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Canada convenes parliamentarians to accelerate achievement of ICPD Programme of Action

23 Nov 2018
Parliamentarians and experts from over 70 countries assembled at the 7th International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action. © UNFPA/Usenabasi Esiet
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Canada supports greater access to contraceptives and medicines for women and girls worldwide

13 Nov 2018
UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem (left) with Marie-Claude Bibeau, Canada’s Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, at the fifth International Conference on Family Planning in Kigali, Rwanda. © UNFPA/Usenabasi Esiet
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A call to protect women and girls on the move

05 October 2018
Rohingya refugee girls participate in classes on sexual and reproductive health and life skills at a UNFPA-supported safe space in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The space offers a place to connect with peers and gain support, care and knowledge to help them stay healthy and safe amidst the hardships of forced displacement. © UNFPA/Carly Learson
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One-stop care centre helps women amid South Sudan’s epidemic of violence

04 July 2018
(Right to left) UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed meet with one-stop centre staff. © UNFPA South Sudan/Arlene Alano
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Midwives deployed to remote Afghanistan to lower maternal death rate

10 July 2018
Family health houses are helping midwives provide reproductive health care in far-flung parts of Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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UNFPA delivers aid to previously unreached Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo

02 January 2018
UNFPA and Syrian Arab Red Cross arrived in Sheikh Maqsoud on 28 December, the first time a UN agency has entered the area with aid. © UNFPA Syria
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Leaders at United Nations address sexual violence as a weapon of war

20 September 2017
"Please don't give up," urges a message at a clinic in Dohuk, Iraq, specializing in treatment for survivors of sexual violence. Sexual and gender-based violence are commonly seen as tactics of warfare. © UNFPAIraq/Turchenkova
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UNFPA aid reaches Deir Ez-Zor City for the first time in three years

15 September 2017
UNFPA delivered hygiene supplies to the city of Deir Ez-Zor, which had been inaccessible to humanitarians for three years. © Syrian Arab Red Crescent
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