UNFPA's New Leader Focuses on the Largest Generation of Young People
In outlining his vision for the United Nations Population Fund, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, the new Executive Director of UNFPA, focused on meeting the challenges of a world population of 7 billion, including the sexual and reproductive health needs of the largest generation of young people. In his first address to the UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board, Dr. Osotimehin re-affirmed UNFPA’s commitment to the core principles of the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, and a world where “every person has the right to sexual and reproductive health, every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person has the education and services to grow up healthy, every girl is treated with dignity and respect, and violence against women should and can end.”
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