Chief, Family Planning Branch, Technical Division, UNFPA. Avid believer in women's innate right to education, reproductive health & socio-economic empowerment.
Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark has been announced as Patron of @UNFPA—the @UN sexual and reproductive health agency.
With her support, we will continue making #motherhood safer, promoting #GenderEquality, and ensuring rights and choices for all:
https://t.co/ruCr8RynpD
“ Circulating the phantasms of #gender is also one way for existing powers … to frighten people into their ranks, to accept censorship, and to externalize their fears and hatred into vulnerable communities.” @JudithButler___#why_afraid_of_gender book.
Curtain raise for #ICPD30 review :
@UNFPA_Supplies steering committee met in New York ! We have mobilized an additional US 10.5 in domestic resources for reproductive health commodities . Profound gratitude to donors & programs countries. #SavingLivesEfficiently#SRHR
A global review of studies in 2005 found that women who had tubal ligations at 30 or younger were eight times more likely to undergo a reversal or an evaluation for in vitro fertilisation than those who had the procedure later in life.
Meeting @UNFPA ED Kanem today, Danish State Sec. for Development Policy Lotte Machon reaffirmed 🇩🇰’s commitment to advancing #SRHR for all women and girls!
Engaging discussions as we approach the important landmark #ICPD30.
Health care workers like Dr. Hijazi are heroes, but they can’t save lives when bombs are falling.
See how @UNFPA—the @UN sexual and reproductive health agency—is making motherhood safer in #Gaza, where 180 births a day are taking place: https://t.co/ZUIn0Ek0JO
#NotATarget
“The more we think of ourselves as self made and self sufficient the harder it is to learn gratitude and humility. And without the sentiments, it is hard to care for the common good.”Michael J. SANDEL, The Tyranny of Merit.
Each year, adolescent girls aged 15-19, in LMICs have an estimated 21 million pregnancies, nearly half of which are unintended.
More than a quarter of those end in abortion, the majority of which occur in unsafe conditions.
(UNFPA's Motherhood in Childhood, the Untold Story)
“Don’t confuse goals with desires. A goal is something you need to achieve. Desires are things you want that can prevent you from achieving your goals” @RayDalio#principles