- 07 December 2020 - 07 December 2020
- Youtube live
Launch event: Humanitarian Action 2021 Overview
Read story- 03 December 2020 - 03 December 2020
- Global
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Proclaimed in 1992 by the United Nations General Assembly, International Day of Persons with Disabilities is intended to promote the rights and well-being of those living with a disability.
Read story- 01 December 2020 - 01 December 2020
- Global
World AIDS Day 2020
Observed since 1988, World AIDS Day calls for continued vigilance in the fight against HIV/AIDS, supporting those living with the disease and remembering the more than 35 million people lost to it. AIDS-related mortality has declined by 39 percent since 2010. Now a global pandemic has threatened progress and deepened inequalities in the fight.
Read story- 01 December 2020 - 01 December 2020
- Virtual Concert
Peace Through Music: A Global Event for Social Justice
Read story- 25 November 2020 - 25 November 2020
- Global
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 2020
In the last year, nearly one in five women has endured physical or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner. Violence against women and girls encompasses a host of atrocities, from rape and femicide, to child marriage and female genital mutilation, to human trafficking and slavery, to stalking and cyber harassment. Achieving zero gender-based violence is a core of UNFPA’s three zeros, along with zero unmet need for family planning and zero preventable maternal deaths.
Read story- 12 November 2020 - 12 November 2020
- Global
Nairobi Summit anniversary
A year ago today, 8,300 delegates from 170 countries descended on Nairobi to recommit to the goals set forth at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994. The landmark conference declared reproductive and sexual health as a fundamental human right and affirmed empowering women and girls is the bedrock to a just, safe, and equitable world.
Read story- 03 November 2020 - 03 November 2020
- Youtube Live
What's Next? Women's agency and poverty eradication in Small Island Developing States
Read story- 24 October 2020 - 24 October 2020
- New York
Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the United Nations
Read story- 14 October 2020 - 14 October 2020
- Youtube Live
What's Next? ICPD Through the Lens of Reproductive Justice
UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem was joined by leading figures from the reproductive justice movement and practitioners in the field for a global conversation on why reproductive justice matters today and how it relates to sexual and reproductive health and rights. The discussants will explore how the reproductive justice lens can be used as an organizing framework bridging the whole array of reproductive rights with broader social justice issues.
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