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United Nations Population Fund
Intergenerational Action for Bodily Autonomy: Accelerating Sustainable Development Goal 3
8 July 2021
Youtube Live
The 2021 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) will focus on ensuring a sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19, with particular attention to how the international community can build an inclusive and effective path for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.
As part of the Forum, UNFPA will host an intergenerational dialogue that brings together governments, civil society, youth leaders and academia to discuss sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and bodily autonomy in relation to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a view to accelerate progress towards a more gender-equitable world.
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This year’s State of the World Population (SWOP) report has charged societies to support women and girls to make their own choices about their bodies.
The report highlights the fact that half of women in developing countries are denied the right to decide whether to have sex with their partners, use contraception or seek health care.
The SWOP is the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) flagship report, that is released every year, since 1999, that guides policy making, advocacy, programming, research, monitoring and evaluation of the Fund’s development agenda.
The 2021 report, which was launched on April 14, 2021 globally, is entitled “My Body is My Own: Claiming the rights to autonomy and self- determination.”
Statement on UK government funding cuts
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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has been informed that the Government of the United Kingdom intends to implement an approximate 85 per cent cut to UNFPA Supplies, the UNFPA flagship programme for family planning, this year. This means that the expected contribution of £154 million ($211 million) for 2021 now will be reduced to around £23 million ($32 million), a retreat from agreed commitments made to the programme in 2020.
In addition, £12 million ($17 million) is to be cut from UNFPA’s core operating funds. Several country-level agreements are also likely to be impacted.