Video: Former Head of UNFPA Nafis Sadik
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Nafis Sadik, formerly the Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), now serves as Special Adviser to the Secretary General and Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia. We sat down with Dr. Sadik recently to discuss the connection between population, women's reproductive health, and security.

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September 25, 2008


Halfway to the Millennium Development Goals
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The following appeared as an op-ed in The Guardian Online on Thursday, September 25th.

This week, over 150 world leaders are gathered at the UN for the opening of the general assembly. If recent years are any indication, news outlets will focus on the disagreements aired on Tuesday, when George Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the podium.

But the real drama occurs today (Thursday), when the same global leaders that butted heads earlier in the week take stock of one of the most far-reaching and noble statements of international cooperation ever agreed upon, the millennium development goals.

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