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27 April 2018
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Youth4Youth: UNFPA facilitates provincial symposiums to connect young people from around the island and to promote youth participation in peacebuilding
27 April 2018: Sri Lanka’s youth population is... Read more
1 April 2018
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KURUNEGALA, Sri Lanka (01 Apr 2018): The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) together with the United Nations in Sri Lanka, participated in ‘Yowunpuraya’ – a 5 day residential youth festival... Read more
7 March 2018
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7 March 2018 (Colombo, Sri Lanka): The World Health Organization (WHO) in Sri Lanka and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Sri Lanka, jointly echo the statement issued by the United... Read more
5 March 2018
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (05 March 2018): UNFPA conducted the first study of its kind in Sri Lanka to understand the contributory factors of unnatural deaths from a gender perspective. Conducted with the... Read more
22 February 2018
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A Journey Towards Gender Equity and Gender Equality – An inter-university youth festival
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (22 February 2018): Every young person will one day have life changing decisions to make... Read more
7 February 2018
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (7 February 2018): Award-winning Hollywood actress, writer, and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, Ms. Ashley Judd, arrived in Sri Lanka on 3 February 2018, and addressed the media at the... Read more
7 February 2018
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Hi everybody. Good afternoon. There you go.
Now where I'm from in the, in the southern part of the United States, it would be typical to say good afternoon back to me, so we can say take two?
Just... Read more
9 January 2018
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9 January 2018, Colombo: The High Commissioner of Canada to Sri Lanka, HE David McKinnon, and Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Sri Lanka, Ms. Ritsu Nacken, signed a... Read more
30 November 2017
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Youth4Youth: UNFPA facilitates a platform for young leaders from four provinces in Sri Lanka to combine their ideas and energies towards policy making and peacebuilding among youth.
Anuradhapura,... Read more
24 November 2017
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Colombo, Sri Lanka: In Sri Lanka, while women constitute 52 percent of Sri Lanka's population, female representation in parliament is only 5.3 percent. Due to gender-based socio-cultural norms and... Read more