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THE MISSION OF UNFPA
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) extends assistance to
developing countries, countries with economies in transition and other
countries at their request to help them address reproductive health and
population issues, and raises awareness of these issues in all
countries, as it has since its inception.
UNFPA’s three main areas of work are: to help ensure universal
access to reproductive health, including family planning and sexual
health, to all couples and individuals on or before the year 2015; to
support population and development strategies that enable
capacity-building in population programming; to promote awareness of
population and development issues, and to advocate for the mobilization
of the resources and political will necessary to accomplish its area of
work.
UNFPA is guided by, and promotes, the principles of the Programme of
Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and
Development (ICPD). In particular, UNFPA affirms its commitment to
reproductive rights, gender equality and male responsibility, and to the
autonomy and empowerment of women everywhere. UNFPA believes that
promoting and safeguarding these rights, and promoting the well-being of
children, especially girl children, are development goals in themselves.
All couples and individuals have the right to decide freely and
responsibly the number and spacing of their children as well as the
right to the information and means to do so.
UNFPA is convinced that meeting these goals will contribute to
improving people’s quality of life and to the universally accepted aim
of stabilizing world population. We also believe that these goals are an
integral part of all efforts to achieve sustained and sustainable social
and economic development that meets human needs, ensures well-being and
protects the natural resources on which all life depends.
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UNFPA recognizes that all human rights, including the right to
development, are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated, as expressed in the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development, the Vienna
Declaration and the Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference
on Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women, the Programme of Action of the World
Summit for Social Development, the Platform for Action of the Fourth
World Conference on Women, and in other internationally agreed
instruments.
UNFPA, as the lead United Nations organization for the follow-up and
implementation of the Programme of Action of the International
Conference on Population and Development, is fully committed to working
in partnership with governments, all parts of the United Nations system,
development banks, bilateral aid agencies, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) and civil society. UNFPA strongly supports the
United Nations Resident Coordinator system and the implementation of all
relevant United Nations decisions.
UNFPA will assist in the mobilization of resources from both
developed and developing countries, following the commitments made by
all countries in the Programme of Action to ensure that the goals of the
International Conference on Population and Development are met.
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