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Serving survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

19 May 2021

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem speaks to a network of humanitarian responders working to prevent and address sexual and gender-based violence. © UNFPA DRC/Luis Tato

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on The State of the World’s Midwifery 2021 Report

Read more about UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on The State of the World’s Midwifery 2021 Report

The world is currently facing an acute shortage of 900,000 midwives, which represents a third of the required global midwifery workforce. The COVID-19 crisis has only exacerbated these problems, with the health needs of women and newborns being overshadowed, midwifery services being disrupted and midwives being deployed to other health services.

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's remarks at the closing of the 54th Session of the Commission on Population and Development

Read more about UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's remarks at the closing of the 54th Session of the Commission on Population and Development

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's remarks at the opening of the 54th Session of the Commission on Population and Development

Read more about UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's remarks at the opening of the 54th Session of the Commission on Population and Development

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Closing remarks, 54th Session of the Commission on Population and Development

23 April 2021

Nobel Prize Summit

26 April 2021

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The power to say yes, the right to say no,

29 March 2021

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Sudan sees expanded life-saving reproductive health services, with women at the helm

24 March 2021

Women in the Shanisha community, in Sudan's Blue Nile State, speak about changes happening since the country's democratic transition. © UNFPA Sudan/Sufian Abdul-Mouty

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Motherhood on the brink: Pregnant women in Yemen under famine and violence

25 March 2021

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's Message on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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To mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem honours the memory of those forced from their homelands and calls for the end of slavery's legacy of racism and discrimination that continues to oppress people of African descent today.