calendar_today 15 May 2019

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Three reasons why the ICPD matters to you

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,…

calendar_today 30 April 2019

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Caught in the crossfire: Urgent needs in north-east Syria

calendar_today 10 April 2019

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World must work harder to secure sexual and reproductive rights for all, says new UNFPA report

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,…

calendar_today 10 April 2019

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UNFPA launches 2019's State of the World Population Report in the region

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…

calendar_today 10 April 2019

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Dahab: living through a global transformation

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 …

calendar_today 28 March 2019

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Statement on the attacks on hospitals in Sa’ada and Taizz, Yemen

Cairo, 28 March 2019 - We are dismayed about the latest escalation of violence in Yemen, most recently the deadly incidence near the Kitaf rural hospital in Sa’ada governorate and…

calendar_today 27 March 2019

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When caged birds sing: stories of Syrian adolescent girls

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…