Events
12 November 2019 - 14 November 2019
Nairobi, Kenya
UNFPA to co-convene Nairobi Summit on ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise
High-level Conference on ICPD25
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the ground-breaking International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), which took place in Cairo in 1994. At that conference, 179 governments adopted a Programme of Action that recognized that reproductive health, women's empowerment and gender equality are the pathway to sustainable development.
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11 July 2019 - 11 July 2019
Worldwide
World Population Day
In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended that 11 July be observed by the international community as World Population Day, a day to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues.
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5 May 2019 - 5 May 2019
Worldwide
International Day of the Midwife
Midwives – and people with midwifery skills – are the main caregivers for women and their newborns during pregnancy, labour, childbirth and in the post-delivery period. Skilled midwives are the difference between life and death for hundreds of thousands of women and infants every year.