Championing Change: Youth, Rights and the Power to Transform Societies.
The Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture series provides a unique forum for distinguished guest lecturers to discuss important aspects of popula
The Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture series provides a unique forum for distinguished guest lecturers to discuss important aspects of population and development.
This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr. Kakenya Ntaiya, a world-renowned educator and advocate for girls' health and human rights on the topic, "Championing Change: Youth, Rights, and the Power to Transform Societies".
The lecture will be followed by a high-level interactive panel discussion moderated by Yoshita Singh, Chief Correspondent, Press Trust of India.
On the lecture series:
The lecture series was initiated in 1989 as a tribute to Mr. Rafael M. Salas, who served as the first Executive Director of UNFPA. Under his leadership, UNFPA grew into the world's largest provider of multilateral population assistance. The first lecture was delivered by The Honorable Dr. Saburo Okita, former Foreign Minister of Japan, on Population and Development. The most recent speaker, in 2023, was Dr. Peter Piot, Special Advisor to the European Commission President, Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and former Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), on the topic of global health.
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