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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on The State of the World’s Midwifery 2021 Report
May 5, 2021The 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.
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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's remarks at the closing of the 54th Session of the Commission on Population and Development
April 23, 2021
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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's remarks at the opening of the 54th Session of the Commission on Population and Development
April 19, 2021
Speech
Closing remarks, 54th Session of the Commission on Population and Development
23 April 20211
Events
Nobel Prize Summit
26 April 2021
Youtube Live
Speech
The power to say yes, the right to say no,
29 March 20211
News
Sudan sees expanded life-saving reproductive health services, with women at the helm
24 March 20211
News
Motherhood on the brink: Pregnant women in Yemen under famine and violence
25 March 20211
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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's Message on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 25, 2021To 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.
Statement
Statement on Gender-Based Violence in Tigray region of Ethiopia
22 March 20211