Goedele Liekens

Goedele Liekens is a well-known television personality in Belgium. Her television career began in 1986. Before then, Ms. Liekens was a successful practicing psychologist-sexologist. She has made the understanding and improvement of human sexuality and relationships the focus of her professional life. Goedele worked as a sex therapist for The Rutgers Foundation and wrote the best-selling book, "69 Questions about Sex." She has created a series of self-help therapy videotapes with Dutch sexologist Jelto Drenth and has written extensively for women's magazines.

Ms. Liekens, together with Face to Face International and Belgian Partner Sensoa (formerly CGSO Trefpunt), has produced several made-for-television documentaries for UNFPA. She has reported on AIDS and fistula in Africa and women in the refugee camps of Pakistan.

Based on several visits to Botswana, Ms. Liekens produced a special report for Belgian television on the HIV/AIDS crisis in Botswana.

Articles and Activities

• 10 December 2007
  Goedele Liekens, Natalie Imbruglia go to Nigeria to Help UNFPA Campaign Against Fistula
  From 8 to 12 December 2007, Goedele Liekens, Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and Natalie Imbruglia, singer, actress and spokesperson for the Campaign against Fistula, will go to northern parts of Nigeria to put their weight behind the worldwide campaign to help end fistula everywhere in the world.
• 28 July 2004
  UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Visits Kabul
  Ms. Liekens traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, to visit key institutions and projects supported by UNFPA, including the Khair Khana Hospital, the Women’s Vocational Training Center at the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the Central Statistical Office. Ms. Liekens has also been to Ethiopia and Namibia in her capacity as both TV journalist and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, reporting to the Belgian public and politicians on fistula, sexual and reproductive health in refugee camps and HIV/AIDS.
  
  6 April 2002
  “Afghanistan Has Made Me into a Different Woman” -- an Interview with Goedele Liekens by Chris Snick
  
  March 2002
  UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Seeks More Support for HIV/AIDS Efforts
  
  22 May 2001
  Least Developed States Demand Strongest Measures Against HIV/AIDS
  
  January 1999
  Dr. Reginal Moreels, Belgian State Secretary for Development Cooperation, was on hand to announce the appointment of Goedele Liekens as UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador to Belgium.

Priorities

HIV/AIDS
Youth Empowerment