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	UNFPA - UN Botswana
		UNFPA will continue to work with the Government of Botswana towards accessible reproductive health services, assist in implementing and evaluating the Population Policy and improve quality of life for both men and women within the nation.
		UNFPA is fully committed to the promotion of reproductive rights, gender equality and male responsibility, and to the autonomy and empowerment of women.
		UNFPA is an advocate for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and ICPD+5 goals which include reproductive health and rights, improvement of the status of women, longer life expectancy, lower infant and maternal mortality, closing the gender gap in population and development strategies, and increasing awareness and resources for population and development.
	www.unbotswana.org.bw /unfpa.html (1092 words)

	Messengers of Peace- Biographies page 2
		Actress and filmmaker Feryal Ali Gauhar (Pakistan) was appointed UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for her country in 1999.
		Author and journalist Hanne-Vibeke Holst (Denmark) was appointed UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and Face to Face Campaign spokesperson for her country in 1998.
		He was appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2001, and visited refugee camps in many Arab countries, focusing public attention on their squalid and unbearable conditions.
	www.un.org /french/events/advocates/bios2.htm (2449 words)

	Press Releases: Southern Africa Humanitarian Crisis, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Geri Halliwell to visit Zambia to ...
		Halliwell was named UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador in October 1998 and works to promote UNFPA’s campaign for reproductive health care and the empowerment of women throughout the world. She went on a mission to the Philippines in 1999 to support access to health services, especially for young people.
		UNFPA is an international development agency that 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.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-6VDP29?OpenDocument (574 words)

	UNFPA Nordic/Netherlands Office
		Kari Jaquesson, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and Face to Face Spokesperson, is Norway's leading fitness personality.
		She has been a fitness professional since she was twenty years old, founding and managing her own fitness facility in the capital Oslo since 1983 and up until recently.
		She founded Norway's first educational system for aerobic instructors and has been called "a fitness pioneer" after introducing several fitness trends to Norway.
	www.unfpa.dk /ambassadorskari.htm (82 words)

	Face to Face: Archives: July 2000
		UNFPA Goodwill Ambassadors representing nations from Western Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean participated in the conference along with Face to Face Campaign NGO partners and donors.
		UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Mary Banotti, M.E.P., informed the conference delegates over lunch of her recent IPPF-sponsored parliamentarian visits to Uganda and Zambia.
		Dr. Bertrand Piccard, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and Face to Face Campaign Spokesperson for Switzerland, delighted the reception participants by parachuting to the ground and speaking about social development, using his hot-air ballooning as a metaphor for life.
	www.facetoface.org /nl_july2000.html (885 words)

	Zamnet Communication Systems Limited
		Presenting the donation to Minister of Health, Angela Cifire, at the UTH yesterday, UNFPA goodwill ambassador, Geri Halliwell, said it was sad that maternal mortality rates were unacceptably high even though they could be prevented.
		And UNFPA country representative Deji Popoola said motherhood in Africa was almost a crime because of the huge cost that followed it.
		She also thanked UNFPA for donating contraceptives because family planning was a key component in safe motherhood.
	www.zamnet.zm /newsys/news/viewnews.cgi?category=10&id=1163576813 (458 words)

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		Mary Banotti, MEP, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador at the Opening Session of the United Nations Meeting of Goodwill Ambassadors and Messengers of Peace, 18 June 2002 Excellencies, Mr.
		I am the UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador from Ireland and I would like to make what will probably be a political speech.
		The main problem that we have to deal with, is combating the horrendous amount of maternal mortality and children dying in the process of childbirth throughout the world.
	www.banotti.ie /PressReleases/Goodwillspeechjune2002.doc (642 words)

	RAOnline Bhutan: Bhutan - Ethnic Groups & People > UNFPA goodwill ambassador concludes eastern tour in Lhuentse and ...
		UNFPA goodwill ambassador concludes eastern tour in Lhuentse and Trashigan">
		The UNFPA goodwill ambassador, Her Majesty the Queen, Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck, returned to Thimphu on April 9, 2006 after a two-week high level advocacy campaign on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health in Lhuentse and Trashiyangtse.
		The joint director of the information communication bureau of the health ministry, Sonam Phuntsho, told Kuensel that Her Majesty was looking at the greater involvement of communities including religious bodies in combating the health issues.
	www.raonline.ch /pages/bt/peop/btpeop_lhuentse01.html (610 words)

	Alfred Biolek: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Biolek's first function as UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, in January 2001 was to discuss those issues and urge international assistance in Germany's biggest television programme, "Wetten dass?" which has an average audience of some 10 millions viewers.
		UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, Alfred Biolek, recently took part in the most popular German television quiz game show entitled "Wer Wird Millionaer?" (Who Wants to be a Millionaire?).
		Biolek's first function as UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador will be to advocate for international development assistance on Germany's biggest television program, "Wetten dass?" which has an average audience of 10 million viewers.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Biolek_Alfred_49100687.htm (728 words)

	FRENCH ACTRESS ELSA ZYLBERSTEIN NAMED UNFPA GOODWILL AMBASSADOR
		NEW YORK, 6 February (UNFPA) -- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today appointed French actress Elsa Zylberstein as its Goodwill Ambassador and Face to Face campaign spokesperson for France. She was formally introduced in that capacity in the French Senate in Paris.
		Zylberstein will mainly focus on Africa, particularly the French-speaking countries. She will work to raise awareness of population and development issues among the public in France and encourage the media to cover population concerns in order to build support for an increased international assistance to improve access to reproductive health services.
		The UNFPA is the world’s largest multilateral source of assistance for population programmes, channelling about one quarter of assistance from donor nations to developing countries. Since it became operational in 1969, it has provided some $5 billion in funds to those countries.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2001/pop787.doc.htm (320 words)

	HEALTH: UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador leads the fight against AIDS
		Kwelagobe is a UN Population Fund goodwill ambassador, a Botswana national and a former Miss Universe.
		She is part of the UNFPA's face to face campaign, which uses celebrities in advocacy work on HIV/Aids.
		Referring to the incident, the UNFPA's Africa Director Fama Hane-Ba, said that conflicts between cultural practices and modern reality were common on the continent.
	www.aegis.com /news/ips/2001/IP010508.html (774 words)

	Stories from Asia - Americans for UNFPA
		UNFPA, and other UN agencies, give financial support and provide technical expertise to government agencies and the many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on the ground.
		UNFPA has been working in Cambodia for 12 years and despite continued progress, the country continues to face many challenges in poverty, health and education.
		UNFPA's Cambodia Goodwill Ambassador, Dr. Chea Samnang - an actor and singer, came along to this party with us and held the teens spellbound with a pep talk about being safe and staying in school.
	www.americansforunfpa.org /site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=enKMIRNpEkG&b=1485955&ct=2060997 (719 words)

	BBC News \| Sci/Tech \| World population still climbing
		UNFPA is observing 12 October as "the day of six billion".
		In a report, "The State of World Population 1999", UNFPA says there are some encouraging signs that human fertility is being reined in.
		Yet, as the report puts it, "half the world is under 25, and there are over 1 bn young people between 15 and 24, the parents of the next generation".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/453680.stm (464 words)

	UN Goodwill Ambassadors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was selected as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador during the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul in 1996.
		Through her assignment as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA she has always been keen to implement UNFPA supported country programmes for Egypt also for the Arab region in-order to implement the recommendations of ICPD Plan of Action and Peking declaration.
		One of the media activities of UNFPA last year was the presentation of a play acted by children, addressing reproductive health issues.
	www.un.org.eg /ambassdors.htm (1143 words)

	Face to Face: Archives: December 2000
		As Goodwill Ambassador, Dr. Biolek will speak out for the rights of young people to receive adequate reproductive health care, as well as the information and services they need to avoid HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies.
		The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) welcomed news in November that the Netherlands would make $39 million and the United Kingdom nearly $37 million in supplemental earmarked contributions to UNFPA for 2000 to avert a shortage crisis in contraceptive and other reproductive health supplies in developing countries.
		The contribution is a gratifying response to UNFPA's advocacy efforts throughout 2000, which repeatedly called attention to and documented a marked shortage of commodities, including contraceptives, during 1999 and 2000 in almost all developing countries and countries in transition.
	www.facecampaign.org /nl_december2000.html (1415 words)

	AHI: Press Room
		In that context, she commended UNFPA for supporting the parent-child communication guide because the home was the best place to start preparing youth for the challenges of the transition to adulthood.
		The booklet is part of a series of community-based efforts UNFPA is helping to provide adolescents with information on reproductive health, which would empower them to protect their health and lives.
		Among those at the occasion were UNFPA’s Deputy Executive Director (Programmes), Kunio Waki; UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, Wendy Fitzwilliam, and the Fund’s Representative in Nigeria, Niangoran Essan.
	www.actionhealthinc.org /media/coverage002.htm (268 words)

	UNFPA: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was honoured as an "example for the youth," commemorating her work "as a professional and as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador".
		In April 2001, in association with the Portuguese Family Planning Association, Associação para o Planeamento da Familia (APF), a local family planning association in Mozambique (AMODEFA), the Portuguese Embassy in Mozambique, and UNFPA representatives, she went to Mozambique and lent her support to government and non-governmental providers of sexual and reproductive health.
		As a voice for UNFPA and its mission, she visits schools, field-projects, parliament, and national and international conferences.
	g.msn.com /9SE/1?http://www.unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=656&&DI=6244&IG=c7889572c7d9423dbf21ef93cd420d15&POS=2&CM=WPU&CE=2&CS=AWP&SR=2 (343 words)

	MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: State of the World Population report to be launched ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to UNFPA, women in the developing world are giving birth to half as many children today as they did in the 1960s.
		In Jordan, the UNFPA programme concentrates on the poorer regions of the country, particularly around the Dead Sea and in the north on the border with Syria and Israel.
		UNFPA is an international development agency that promotes the rights of global communities in enjoying a healthy life with equal opportunities.
	www.menafn.com /qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=110604 (633 words)

	UN Goodwill Ambassador Conference wraps-up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NEW YORK, 19 June 2002--The two-day Goodwill Ambassador and Messengers of Peace Meetings was host to 48 prominent personalities from the arts, film, music, sports, literature and public affairs.
		Mr.Nakata became an ambassador in 1993 after the death of his son, a UN Electoral Supervisor with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).
		He also called attention to the fact that using well-known individuals to promote issues by reaching political leaders, youth and other groups, by enhancing visibility of programs, and by working with the media, is an effective means of advocacy.
	www.unv.org /infobase/news_releases/2002/02_06_19USA_ambassador.htm (394 words)

	UNFPA (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Singer,a poet, composer, and folklorist, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for Obstetric Fistula and Against Women Violence in Sudan for his great advocacy for women health, gender equality and human rights.
		Actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and face to face Campaign Spokesperson for Portugal.
		Actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador in the Arab Region.
	www.alkabli.net.cob-web.org:8888 /un.htm (717 words)

	PLANetWIRE.org: World Economic Forum Selects UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador as a Global Leader for Tomorrow (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		UNITED NATIONS, New York, 27 January - UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and Miss Universe 1999, Mpule Kwelagobe, was among young international personalities selected by the World Economic Forum as the “Global Leaders for Tomorrow” for the year 2003.
		She was appointed as UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador in February 2000 in recognition of her work to promote the health and well being of the women and children in her country.
		UNFPA is the world's largest multilateral source of population assistance.
	www.planetwire.org.cob-web.org:8888 /details/3787 (484 words)

	The Hindu : Around the world in 20 days
		A ride in hot air balloon is just as easy as chewing an iron ball, yet it is a possibility with Bernard Piccard, the world's first man to circumnavigate the globe in a record time.
		In Delhi this week as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, he helps explore many an adventure tale.
		THREE GAS cylinders, one burner, 3 full size ropes and four rods, a plywood base and a basket of leather border - was all that made `Thunder 140', a balloon of 3, 400 cubic meter size, weighing 9, 200 kg.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/mp/2002/10/31/stories/2002103100420200.htm (547 words)

	India - Women - A Performing Parliamentarian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1998 Azmi was nominated as the UNFPA's (United Nations Population Fund) Goodwill Ambassador for India.
		Since then she has not only supported and highlighted population and development, reproductive health and gender issues - as she was mandated to do - but has, self-confessedly, taken up the gauntlet for women's health.
		With fierce determination she pursues her agendas in Parliament, continues to win awards and accolades for acting and is increasingly being identified with activism in the field of social justice.
	www3.estart.com /india/women/shabana.html (673 words)

	Marie Stopes International - UK - Press releases: 22 October 2001
		Geri Halliwell, Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), will launch the like it is site on October 25, 2001, by taking part in a live web-chat with her fans, from
		Geri, who is assigned to Marie Stopes International in her role as UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, said: "This site gives frank information, but in a way that's appropriate and safe for young people.
		Geri's previous work for UNFPA and MSI has included addressing a youth summit in London on adolescent sexuality, visiting clinics and a sex education programme run by MSI in the Philippines and launching a schools' competition pack on global reproductive health issues in the UK.
	www.mariestopes.org.uk /uk/press/press-uk-221001.htm (500 words)

	'One woman every minute' - Health Watch - health issues - Brief Article UN Chronicle - Find Articles
		When I was asked to become Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), I wanted to accept immediately, before asking two essential questions and finding out whether I was capable of this assignment.
		This is why I am committed to UNFPA and why I actively support the activities of the French NGO, Equilibres et Populations, which represents the Face to Face campaign in France and lobbies for health care and education in developing countries.
		Elsa Zylberstein is a French actress and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and Face to Face campaign spokesperson for France.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1309/is_1_38/ai_80497155 (894 words)

	Welcome to :: United Nations - Syria
		The second speech was by UNFPA Representative who briefly demonstrated Population World Report, and paid tributes to the Government’s commitment towards population development.
		Next was the Chairman of the State Planning Commission who stated that population issue was given exceptional concern since the Corrective Movement, and consequently expressed through the statement of the Late President to Mexico Conference in 1984, and in the National Population Conference conducted under the Patronage of Mr.
		The President of Women General Union and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador jointly chaired the session.
	unfpa.un.org.sy /wpd.htm (626 words)

	Asia-Pacific POPIN Bulletin Vol.13, No.1 Jan - Apr 2001 (News) [Updated 25 Apr 2001] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In an effort to dramatize the rapidity of India's population growth, he stated that the natural increase in population -- births minus deaths -- for the European Union was 343,000 for the entire year, but India achieved that amount of population growth during the first week of this year.
		Dr Chea Samnang (kneeling, fourth from left), UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for Cambodia, takes a break during a Youth Camp arranged by a group of NG0s part of the EC/UNFPA Youth Reproductive Health Programme, which was held at the Sihanouk Ville beach resort from 19 to 23 March.
		UNFPA estimates that more than 2,000 women die annually from abortion- or pregnancy-related problems, although the exact figures are difficult to determine.
	www.unescap.org /esid/psis/population/popin/bulletin/2001/v13n01.htm (11640 words)

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