2020 Message to WCAR Staff form regional management.

On this Human Rights Day, we at UNFPA salute the young people who are pushing for progress and making meaningful change in their communities, countries and around the world. Twenty-five years ago, women’s rights activists and advocates galvanized the political will that led to the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and its historic Programme of Action. Many of them were young women,...

The 2019 edition of the International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa, (ICASA 2019), ended in Kigali, Rwanda with a commitment by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to strengthen its leadership role in the Global HIV Prevention Coalition as a co-convener.   Addressing delegates at the end of the five-day conference on behalf of UNFPA Executive, UNFPA Regional Director for...