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Providing Support for the Chibok Girls and their Families
As I have stated before, I was shocked and appalled by the abduction of 276 young girls in Chibok in the north of Nigeria from the safety of their... Read more
Senegal releases preliminary census results in record time thanks to UNFPA support
Senegal has 12,873,601 inhabitants in 2013. For the first time in the history of census in Senegal, preliminary data are available in a record time... Read more
Families matter for the achievement of development goals
Twenty years ago, at the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development, the world community recognized that families, in their various... Read more
Abduction of Nigerian girls demands global response
Today more than 200 school girls will wake up to another day in an unthinkable nightmare. Three weeks ago, they were seized in the night by armed men... Read more
United Nations agencies report steady progress in saving mothers’ lives
GENEVA / NEW YORK | 6 May 2014 – New United Nations* data show a 45% reduction in maternal deaths since 1990. An estimated 289, 000 women died in... Read more
Concerted efforts required to scale up midwifery skills
Globally, in the past two decades, maternal death has declined by nearly half. In the same period, skilled birth attendance has increased by 15 per... Read more
Ivorian government and UNFPA tackle teenage pregnancy in schools
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire – Faced with the alarming number of pregnancies recorded among students in primary and secondary schools, more than 5000... Read more
UN accelerates progress in reproductive, maternal and child health in Guinea Bissau
Bissau, Guinea – Bissau - Five United Nations agencies are implementing together the H4+ Initiative , with funding from the Swedish Development... Read more
Harnessing the potential of Africa’s youth
United Nations, New York – The growing number of young people in Africa could offer enormous potential gains to the continent, but only if their... Read more
How has the world changed in the last 20 years?
United Nations, New York – Twenty years ago, in 1994, the international community gathered in Cairo to explore how the world was changing and how... Read more