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23 May 2019
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The Youth Forum in the Arab Region 2019
Tunis, Tunisia, 20-22 August, 2019
CALL FOR YOUTH PARTICPATION
Deadline: 09 June 2019 (17:00 pm GMT+2/ Cairo Time) *
UNFPA and partners are convening the... Read more
21 May 2019
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DOMIZ 2, Iraq – “I never thought I would have to start over,” Nermin* told UNFPA from Domiz 2 Camp in Iraq.
She was 21 when she was uprooted from her hometown in Qamishli by the horrors of the... Read more
15 May 2019
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The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) took place in Cairo in 1994. 179 world leaders reached a consensus and adopted a programme of action, which enshrined individual... Read more
5 May 2019
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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem for the International Day of the Midwife, 5 May 2019
Midwives are public health heroes, ensuring that a woman can have a healthy pregnancy,... Read more
30 April 2019
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Al-Hassakeh, Syria – Vulnerable civilians were caught in the crossfire as hostilities intensified in north-eastern Syria in recent weeks. “I took out around 160 pieces of shrapnel from the bodies of... Read more
10 April 2019
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Dahab el-Sayed, 60, lives in a marginal neighbourhood of Cairo. She vaguely remembers the excitement in her city when the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) took place in... Read more
10 April 2019
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UNITED NATIONS, New York, 10 April 2019— The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women, empowering them to govern their own... Read more
10 April 2019
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Marking the 50th anniversary of the creation of UNFPA, the UN agency for sexual and reproductive health, this year’s State of the World Population Report (SWOP) was launched in the Arab region on 10... Read more
28 March 2019
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Statement by Dr. Luay Shabaneh, UNFPA’s Director for the Arab region, in response to the recent attacks on hospitals in Sa’ada and Taizz, Yemen
Cairo, 28 March 2019 - We are dismayed about the latest... Read more
27 March 2019
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Even as some parts of Syria appear to be stabilizing, the crisis has long since passed a tipping point in terms of generational change, and its effects will undoubtedly continue for many years to... Read more