
During their visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bureau of the Executive Board of UNICEF consisting of high officials form Finland, Albania, Guyana, Kenya and the Islamic Republic of Iran had the opportunity to observe the situation of children and families, especially the most vulnerable ones, and to understand how an upstream approach at the different levels of governance contributes to improve the situation of children. More...
On April 17th the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations, together with the Permanent Missions of Indonesia and Liberia, organized a side event at UN Headquarters on how to address conflict, violence and disaster in the post-2015 development agenda. More...
The high-Level Task Force for ICPD is urging governments and the international community to take much bolder action to meet and build on commitments they made at the International Conference on Population Development (ICPD) in Cairo nineteen years ago in 1994. As the 20-year review of progress towards ICPD goals gets underway, the Task Force released its position paper with their recommendations in New York on April 25th. More...