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Statement of the UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, for Human Rights Day, 10 December 2012
Participation Starts at Home: Reproductive Rights are Key to Meaningful Participation
Press Release - Population of over 60 year-olds to reach one billion within the decade, finds new UN Report
Report Calls for Urgent Action by Governments to Address the needs of the "Greying Generation" • 80% of world's older people will... Read more
Statement by Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNFPA, International Youth Day
Today, we celebrate the world's 1.8 billion young people. And we pause to consider that 43 per cent of the world's population is under the age of 25-a figure that rises to 60 per cent in the least... Read more
Secretary General's Message on International Youth Day 2012
Today's generation of youth -- the largest the world has ever known, and the vast majority of whom live in developing countries -- has unprecedented potential to advance the well-being of the entire... Read more
THE SECRETARY GENERAL'S MESSAGE ON WORLD POPULATION DAY 11 July 2012
The world's population has more than tripled since the United Nations was created in 1945, and keeps growing. With more than 7 billion people now inhabiting the planet, we face ever greater demands... Read more
UNFPA'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS MESSAGE ON WORLD POPULATION DAY 2012
Giving birth is typically the most joyful moment in a woman's life. Yet, this very process takes the life of so many women worldwide. Every day, some 800 women die in pregnancy or childbirth from... Read more
Dhiraagu Broadband Roadrace
About 30 June 2012, more than 2,500 people took part in this year's local social awareness event Dhiraagu Broadband Road Race "Run Against Domestic Violence and Child Abuse". UNFPA Maldives was one... Read more
UN MALDIVES PRESS RELEASE- PASSAGE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BILL
UN Maldives Press Release on Passage of Domestic Violence Bill.Pdf
Message of Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, UNFPA Executive Director, for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2012
Empower Rural Women - End Hunger and Poverty Message of Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, UNFPA Executive Director, for International Women's Day, 8... Read more
PRESS RELEASE - STATE OF THE WORLD POPULATION REPORT 2011
Additional Investments in Adolescent Reproductive Health and Empowerment of Women Needed as World Population Tops 7 Billion, States UNFPA Report... Read more