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09 July 2017
News
MESSAGE FOR WORLD POPULATION DAY 2017
MESSAGE FOR WORLD POPULATION DAY 2017 Family planning: empowering people, developing nations Dr. Natalia Kanem Acting Executive Director UNFPA, the United Nations Population…
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20 June 2017
Press Release
Statement attributable to Dr Luay Shabaneh, UNFPA Director for the Arab Region, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
Cairo, June 19, 2017 - In 2017, the United Nations Secretary-General reported that sexual violence continued to be used as a tactic of war in a number of conflict settings…
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12 June 2017
Press Release
UNFPA MOURNS PASSING OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 5 June 2017—With profound sadness, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, announces that its Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin,…
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12 June 2017
Training youth on using theatre to raise awareness on reproductive health & child marriage
UNFPA in cooperation with Y-Peer organized one-week workshop on interactive theater techniques for young people to practice new methods which will enable them to share social…
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12 June 2017
Creating a platform to inspire youth and deliver messages of hope restoration
First batch of the coding boot camp
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12 June 2017
3 Entrepreneurship Boot Camps for Young Syrians Startups in Damascus, Homs and Lattakia
UNFPA closes its first “Entrepreneurship Boot Camp” in Lattakia in collaboration with the Information, Communication and Technology Incubator (ICT Incubator). …
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21 May 2017
Qualitative Data Collection Training for UNFPA’s partners in Homs
Qualitative Data Collection Training for UNFPA’s partners in Homs
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10 May 2017
UNFPA provides urgently needed aids in Al Hassake & Al Qamishly
UNFPA-Syria, during May, distributed approximately 80,000 sanitary napkins in coordination with Al Bir Charitable and sociable in Qamishli, Al Bir and AL Ihsan Charitable…
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05 May 2017
Statement
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin for the International Day of the Midwife, 5 May 2017
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, celebrates the heroic and life-saving work that midwives do every day, often in very trying circumstances. Thanks to midwives, millions…
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