News & Events
- Message for World Population Day 2010
Everyone Counts
12 July 2010
As we commemorate World Population Day, "Everyone Counts" is a theme that speaks to the inherent value and dignity of each human being, in Nepal and around the world.
- EVERYONE COUNTS: QUALITY DATA ESSENTIAL TO IMPROVING PEOPLE'S LIVES, SAYS UNFPA
World Population Day 2010
09 July 2010
Reliable information is essential for governments to formulate policies that would meet people's needs and improve their lives
- Message for World Population Day 2010
Everyone Counts
09 July 2010
As we commemorate World Population Day, "Everyone Counts" is a theme that speaks to the inherent value and dignity of each human being.
- International Day of the Midwife, 5 May 2010
Joint message of Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, and Agneta S. Bridges, Secretary-General, ICM, the International Confederation of Midwives
29 April 2010
Each year, hundreds of thousands of women die and three million newborns do not survive the first week of life because they lack access to maternity health services and skilled midwifery care.
- New 'Asia and the Pacific at a Glance' and other 2009 UNFPA publications on Asia
2 February 2010
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Message of Ms. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director, UNFPA
25 November 2009
In the 16 days leading up to Human Rights Day and every day, let us come together to demand an end to the most pervasive yet least reported human rights abuse in the world. Let us all take a stand and say loud and clear 'No to violence against women'.
- Women central to efforts to deal with climate change, says new UNFPA report
18 November 2009
Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, concludes The State of World Population 2009, released today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2009
17 October 2009
To expand gains in human development and to realize rights that have been agreed to by nations around the world including Nepal, now is the time to invest in women and girls - in their health, education, participation and well-being.
- United Nations Marks Fifteenth Anniversary of ICPD
12 October 2009
The General Assembly today marked the fifteenth anniversary of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), which adopted a 20-year plan to provide access to reproductive health, reduce maternal deaths, promote women's rights and help reduce poverty.
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