- 30 June 2021 - 02 July 2021
- Global
Generation Equality Forum
Kicked off by the Government of Mexico in Mexico City in March, the Generation Equality Forum culminates with three days of events co-hosted by the Government of France in Paris, all to advance progress in realizing Sustainable Development Goal 5 by 2030: Achieve gender equality and empower women and girls.
- 08 June 2021 - 10 June 2021
- Global
High-Level Meeting on AIDS
As part of the High-Level Meeting on AIDS, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem will participate at the 8 June side event entitled, “No Prevention, No End: The importance of leadership for HIV prevention – how decisions can turn an epidemic,” co-hosted by UNAIDS, of which UNFPA is a cosponsor, and the Global HIV Prevention Working Group.
Read story- 07 June 2021 - 11 June 2021
- UN Web TV
Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS: Annual session 2021
The Executive Board holds its annual session, with the UNFPA portion on 10 June. Executive director Dr. Natalia Kanem will deliver a statement with an update on the impact of and the agency’s response to COVID-19, now in its second year, as well as a progress report on the implementation of the 2018-2021 Strategic Plan and statistical and financial review.
Read story- 03 June 2021 - 03 June 2021
- Zoom
Nordic Talks
All women have a right to bodily autonomy, the power and agency to make decisions governing their own bodies and futures, yet nearly half of women in 57 developing countries are denied that right.
UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem takes part in the virtual debate “Let’s Talk About Sex: Bodily Autonomy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights” with Flemming Møller Mortensen, Danish Minister for International Development and Nordic Cooperation, and Natasha Wang Mwansa, adolescent sexual and reproductive health rights expert. Katja Iversen will moderate, and two-time world champion poet and UNCHR Goodwill Ambassador Emi Mahmoud will introduce the event, meant to inspire taking action toward gender equality around the world.
- 18 May 2021 - 18 May 2021
- Youtube Live
Policy dialogue on the State of the World’s Midwifery 2021 report
UNFPA, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) host a dialogue on the State of the World’s Midwifery (SoWMy) 2021 report.
Read story- 26 April 2021 - 26 April 2021
- Youtube Live
Nobel Prize Summit
UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem will participate in the first Nobel Prize Summit, a virtual event entitled “Our Planet, Our Future.” Over three days, Nobel Prize laureates and world-renowned leaders and experts will explore what we can do in the next ten years to make the future more sustainable and prosperous.
Read story- 19 April 2021 - 23 April 2021
- UN Web TV
Commission on Population and Development, 54th session
Every year since 1994, when the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was adopted in Cairo, the Commission on Population and Development has met to review the programme’s progress at the national, regional and international levels. Prior to that, the commission (formed in 1946 and comprising representatives of 47 member states) met every two to three years.
Read story- 29 March 2021 - 29 March 2021
- Zoom, Facebook Live
The Power to Say Yes, the Right to Say No
The LSE Global Health Initiative hosts this public event with UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem, who will discuss how sexual and reproductive health and rights and bodily autonomy are foundational to equality, prosperity, peace and sustainable development. Dr. Rishita Nandagiri, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science, will chair the online session.
- 25 March 2021 - 25 March 2021
- UN Web TV
Still We Rise – Ending Slavery’s Legacy of Racism: a global imperative for justice
Join the global youth, the Honourable Jean Augustine, Melissa Noel, hip-hop artist Webster, musicians Peter Gabriel and Angelique Kidjo, the UN Deputy Secretary-General and Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, UNESCO Deputy Director-General and UNFPA Executive Director and the permanent observers of the African Union and CARICOM, in an online cultural event to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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