Talk:United Nations Population Fund
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This article could use some improvement. 24.215.155.9 02:31, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Yeah I agree - it's straight out of the organization's brochure seemingly. Definitely could use some objective balancing out. rjp2006
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[edit] Copyvio
The section "UNFPA and its critics" was swiped from the UNFPA website at [:http://www.unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=679]. I'm removing the copyvio material although this information really does need to be in the article (albeit rather more NPOV). This whole article needs to be expanded & reworked. NTK 02:40, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Coerced abortions
The article previously stated (as fact) that the UNFPA does not support forced abortions or sterilisations. This is disputed by some people (including the US government). So I modified the article to try to recognize this. -- 69.181.74.76 01:49, 27 January 2006 (UTC) UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund …because everyone counts Zachary Parsons
The UNFPA’s Goals UNFPA looks to improve the lives and expand the choices of individuals and couples. After time, the reproductive choices they choose, multiplied across communities and countries, affect population construction and trends.
Work of the UNFPA The work of the agency revolves around improving reproductive health, making motherhood safer, supporting adolescence and youth, preventing HIV/Aids, promoting gender equality, protecting human rights securing reproductive health supplies and through this they use a culturally sensitive approach. Their major countries in need are third world countries who deal with these major problems.
The UNFPA supports programmes in four areas, the Arab States and Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the sub-Saharan Africa. They work in more the 140 countries, territories and areas. Around three quarters of the staff work in the field.
The UNFPA works in partnership with other United Nations agencies, governments and communities. Working together, the agency raises awareness and assembles the support and resources needed to attain the targets presented in the Millennium Goals and at the International Conference on Population and Development.
Some of the UNFPA work involves the lead in providing supplies and services to protect reproductive health. They also encourage the participation of young people and women to help rebuild their societies who are affected by poor reproductive health which expands out into areas such as prevention of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/Aids.
Two previous examples – Africa, Senegal There was a successful country programme which carried out three specific maternal mortality reduction projects that focused on the construction and renovation on equipping of health centres & rural maternity units.
Africa, Mali Through interagency team work, the country was enabled to build and provide 7 new community health centres in 3 areas and 1 new maternity unit.
Role of the UNFPA The UNFPA has a mission in which they want to accomplish and that is – UNFPA promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. Basically the agency’s goals including their roles are – • Universal access to reproductive health services by 2015 • Universal primary education and closing the gender gap in education by 2015 • Reducing maternal mortality by 75 per cent by 2015 • Reducing infant mortality • Increasing life expectancy • Reducing HIV infection rates
Criticism of the UNFPA:
The UNFPA executive director stresses the need to broaden participation and overcome mistrust among partners.
[edit] Propganda
This whole article reads like a giant brochure for the UNPFA. I would even go so far to call it propaganda. It is not NPOV and needs to be worked on ALOT.
[edit] Cleanup task done
The article is now being cleaned (adding more external citations, fixing headings, typos, adding more recent information). Cleanup areticle has now been removed - 04 May 2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 57.69.17.243 (talk) 15:59, 4 May 2007 (UTC).
