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19 February 2015
People must be at the core of development - Dr Jiko Luveni, UNFPA Pacific High-Level Champion
From being the first woman to graduate as a dentist from the Fiji School of Medicine in 1967 to being the first woman Speaker of Fiji's House of Representatives in 2014,…
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17 February 2015
Fiji Speaker of the House of Representatives takes up UNFPA High-Level Champion Role
UNFPA Pacific, Suva (February 17, 2015) - In a groundbreaking partnership for the region, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pacific Sub-Regional Office and the first…
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12 February 2015
Seeing is believing - the trickle-down effect of development
For the majority of the her life, Melaia Nabukavou lived in Suva City during which time she joined one of the first organized body for indigenous women, the Soqosoqo…
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06 February 2015
UNFPA Pacific assistance to boost safe motherhood efforts
UNFPA Pacific, Suva (06/06/15) - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pacific Sub-Regional Office officially presented equipment for maternal health services to the…
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05 February 2015
Gift from their youth - a wellness centre
THE propensity to hold off going to seek medical advice or not to take oneself to the dentist until one's face resembled a puffer fish is a practice in our island…
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24 December 2014
Sport for progress - an article on sports and development
UNFPA Pacific, Suva (December 24, 2013) - We have all seen the uniting power of sport; it is indiscriminate and its tentacles reach across ethnic, religious and age groups, or…
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15 December 2014
Backing each other - more couples visit centre together
THE banter is typical of a young couple, they are comfortable in their space and if not for the fact that we were sitting in a health facility, one could have easily assumed…
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10 December 2014
The Pathway to Human-Centred Development - Statement by Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund
Full enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights can mean the difference between life and death for hundreds of thousands of women and adolescent girls: the…
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10 December 2014
The right to plan - An article marking Human Rights Day
UNFPA Pacific, December 10, 2013, Suva - At some point of her life, a woman will confront questions that the majority of members of our communities assume is a given - whether…
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