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08 April 2020
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Haiti / Covid-19: The elderly need us more than ever
Port-au-Prince, April 8, 2020 --- Jeannine, 80, who lives in the north of Port-au-Prince was already cloistered at her daughter's, 50, only allowing herself a small daily nap…
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07 April 2020
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World Health Day: Protecting midwives to keep women and babies safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Statement of the Executive Director, Dr Natalia Kanem, on World Health Day On this World Health Day, we mark the first International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife…
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01 April 2020
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Staggering numbers of women unable to exercise decision-making over their own bodies, new UNFPA report shows
UNITED NATIONS, New York/BAMAKO, Mali/PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Out of nine pregnancies, Kadiatou experienced five tragic stillbirths, all at her home in rural Mali…
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26 March 2020
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Women, girls, health workers must not be overlooked in global COVID-19 response
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem With each passing day, the scale of the COVID-19 crisis and its consequences are becoming ever more…
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25 March 2020
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Standing up together against the legacy of enslavement: racism, discrimination and continued injustice
Statement by the Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day of Remeberance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 25 March …
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08 March 2020
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Generation Equality : Gender equality and full exercise of rights…
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 8, 2020 --- On the occasion of International Women's Day, I made acquaintance over the air with 2 extraordinary women. The first one is commonly…
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17 February 2020
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Haiti / Afro-descendants: Getting out of the mental chain maintained by clichés
Port-au-Prince, February 17, 2020 --- At the initiative of the Citizen Movement for the Decade of Afro-descendants, professor and researcher Jacques Michel Gourgue delivered on…
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20 January 2020
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When midwifery students from Haiti come together in an association
Port-au-Prince, January 20, 2020 --- An ad hoc committee to lead the process of setting up the Haitian Association of Midwifery Students was officially presented to the press on…
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01 December 2019
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Communities make the difference
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World AIDS Day 1 December 2019 This World AIDS Day, UNFPA recognizes the vital role of…
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