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11 July 2020
News
H.E. Dr. Ing Khantha Phavi, Minister, Ministry of Women’s Affairs of Cambodia, and Head of the Royal Government of Cambodia Delegation to the Nairobi Summit in 2019.
H.E. Mr. Chea Chantum, Secretary... Read more
11 July 2020
Statement
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Population Day
Peace in our world begins with peace in the home, as the United Nations Secretary-General stated in his call for a... Read more
30 June 2020
Press Release
30 June 2020, NEW YORK--Every year, millions of girls are subjected to practices that harm them physically and emotionally, with the full knowledge and consent of their families, friends and... Read more
18 May 2020
Press Release
Phnom Penh – UNFPA, The United Nations Population Fund in Cambodia provides 1,670 Dignity Kits along with communication materials to assist the National Committee for Counter Tracking (NCCT) of the... Read more
17 May 2020
News
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights speaks to the universality of human rights. Everyone, everywhere, is entitled... Read more
5 May 2020
News
Pert Vorn, a midwife working in rural Cambodia, remembers a time when women in villages throughout the country had no access to proper sexual or reproductive care.
Women would give birth on straw... Read more
11 July 2019
News
PHNOM PENH –Twenty-five years have passed since that landmark conference, where 179 governments, including Cambodia, recognized that reproductive health and gender equality are essential for... Read more
10 April 2019
Press Release
New York / Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 10 April 2019— The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women, empowering them to govern their... Read more
15 March 2019
News
In Khmer language, people have always referred to baby delivery as ‘Crossing the river’. Meaning that the lives of boat riders depends on the weather – they could be safe, or things could go wrong.... Read more
26 October 2018
Press Release
The global trend towards smaller families, including in Cambodia, is a reflection of people making reproductive choices to have as few or as many children as they want, when they want. When people... Read more