If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to ma…

- Thoraya Obaid

We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reprod…

- Thoraya Obaid

It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can . . . explore the depths of the seas and build an internation…

- Thoraya Obaid

We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal…

- Thoraya Obaid

We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor communities; we als…

- Thoraya Obaid

The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with an in…

- Thoraya Obaid