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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's Message to the High-Level Segment of the Human Rights Council

February 23, 2021
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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's Message on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation

February 3, 2021

  

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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's Message on the Humanitarian Action 2021 Overview

December 7, 2020

   

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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's Message on the 16 Days of Activism against GBV

November 24, 2020
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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem's Message on the Nairobi Summit Anniversary

November 10, 2020
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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem Message on the International Day of the Girl Child

October 8, 2020
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Coming together in a time of COVID-19

September 29, 2020

At the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, leaders from governments and international organizations called for specific actions to address the financial and socioeconomic consequences of COVID-19. UNFPA's Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem called for leaders to urgently support the health, rights and welfare of all.

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COVID-19 Message: Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director

March 26, 2020

UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, stands in solidarity with all those responding to the novel coronavirus: from the medical staff and volunteers bravely tending to the sick, to the bus drivers and care-workers who have been catapulted onto the front line of the response. And we grieve with the growing number of those who have lost loved ones in the greatest global health crisis in a century.

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Message on Ending Child Marriage: Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director

March 25, 2020

Statement by Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director, on ending child marriage.

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

April 7, 2020

On this World Health Day, we mark the first International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. Midwives are central to everything we do at UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Their life-saving skills go far beyond delivering babies; midwives educate, empower and enable women to lead healthy lives and to exercise their right to sexual and reproductive health.
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