United_Nations_Population_Fund

context: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, is a UN organization. The UNFPA says it "is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled."  Their work involves the improvement of reproductive health; including creation of national strategies and protocols, and providing supplies and services. The organization has recently been known for its worldwide campaign against obstetric fistula and female genital mutilation.
qas: answers: text: United Nations Population Fund
question: What is the current name of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities?

answers: text: reproductive health
question: UNFPA's work concerns what general area?

answers: text: wanted
question: One of UNFPA's goals is to make all pregnancies what?

answers: text: safe
question: Another of UNFPA's goals is to make all childbirths what?

answers: text: female genital mutilation
question: What, in addition to its work against obstetric fistula, is UNFPA campaigning against?

context: The UNFPA supports programs in more than 150 countries, territories and areas spread across four geographic regions: Arab States and Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. Around three quarters of the staff work in the field. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group and part of its Executive Committee.
qas: answers: text: four
question: In how many geographic regions does UNFPA operate?

answers: text: three quarters
question: About what fraction of UNFPA's staff do field work?

answers: text: United Nations Development Group
question: UNFPA is part of what larger U.N. group?

answers: text: Europe
question: UNFPA groups what area in the same geographic region as the Arab States?

context: UNFPA began operations in 1969 as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (the name was changed in 1987) under the administration of the United Nations Development Fund. In 1971 it was placed under the authority of the United Nations General Assembly.
qas: answers: text: 1969
question: When did UNFPA begin its work?

answers: text: United Nations Fund for Population Activities
question: What was UNFPA's original name?

answers: text: 1987
question: When did the organization change its name?

answers: text: United Nations Development Fund
question: UNFPA was originally administered by what U.N. body?

answers: text: 1971
question: When was UNFPA moved to being under the authority of the United Nations General Assembly?

context: In September 2015, the 193 member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 goals aiming to transform the world over the next 15 years. These goals are designed to eliminate poverty, discrimination, abuse and preventable deaths, address environmental destruction, and usher in an era of development for all people, everywhere.
qas: answers: text: 2015
question: When did the U.N. vote to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals?

answers: text: 193
question: How many countries adopted the Sustainable Development Goals?

answers: text: 17
question: How many Sustainable Development Goals are there?

answers: text: 15 years
question: The Sustainable Development Goals are intended to change the world over what time period?

context: The Sustainable Development Goals are ambitious, and they will require enormous efforts across countries, continents, industries and disciplines - but they are achievable. UNFPA is working with governments, partners and other UN agencies to directly tackle many of these goals - in particular Goal 3 on health, Goal 4 on education and Goal 5 on gender equality - and contributes in a variety of ways to achieving many of the rest. 
qas: answers: text: ambitious
question: Are the Sustainable Development Goals considered ambitious or modest in scope?

answers: text: health
question: The third of the goals concerns what?

answers: text: education
question: What does the fourth goal focus on improving?

answers: text: gender equality
question: What is the topic of the fifth goal?

context: Executive Directors and Under-Secretaries General of the UN
2011–present Dr Babatunde Osotimehin (Nigeria)
2000–2010 Ms Thoraya Ahmed Obaid (Saudi Arabia)
1987–2000 Dr Nafis Sadik (Pakistan)
1969–87 Mr Rafael M. Salas (Philippines)
qas: answers: text: Rafael M. Salas
question: Who was Executive Director or Under-Secretary General from 1969 to 1987?

answers: text: Nigeria
question: Dr Babatunde Osotimehin hailed from what country?

answers: text: Thoraya Ahmed Obaid
question: Who was Executive Director or Under-Secretary General from 2000 to 2010?

answers: text: Dr Nafis Sadik
question: Which doctor from Pakistan served until 2000?

context: UNFPA is the world's largest multilateral source of funding for population and reproductive health programs. The Fund works with governments and non-governmental organizations in over 150 countries with the support of the international community, supporting programs that help women, men and young people:
qas: answers: text: population and reproductive health programs
question: UNFPA is the largest worldwide funder of what type of programs?

answers: text: 150
question: In how many countries does UNFPA operate?

answers: text: non-governmental organizations
question: In addition to working directly with governments, with whom does UNFPA work?

answers: text: the international community
question: What supports UNFPA's work?

answers: text: young people
question: The Fund's programs support women, men, and who else?

context: According to UNFPA these elements promote the right of "reproductive health", that is physical, mental, and social health in matters related to reproduction and the reproductive system.
qas: answers: text: reproductive health
question: UNFPA lists elements that promote what human right?

answers: text: the reproductive system
question: These elements concern health related to reproduction and what else?

answers: text: social health
question: What is the third element?

context: The Fund raises awareness of and supports efforts to meet these needs in developing countries, advocates close attention to population concerns, and helps developing nations formulate policies and strategies in support of sustainable development. Dr. Osotimehin assumed leadership in January 2011. The Fund is also represented by UNFPA Goodwill Ambassadors and a Patron.
qas: answers: text: developing countries
question: Where does The Fund work to raise awareness and provide support?

answers: text: population concerns
question: To what does The Fund advocate that close attention be paid?

answers: text: policies and strategies
question: What two things does The Fund help developing nations formulate to support sustainable development?

answers: text: Dr. Osotimehin
question: Who took up leadership of The Fund in January 2011?

answers: text: Goodwill Ambassadors
question: The Fund is represented by a Patron and who else?

context: UNFPA works in partnership with governments, along with other United Nations agencies, communities, NGOs, foundations and the private sector, to raise awareness and mobilize the support and resources needed to achieve its mission to promote the rights and health of women and young people.
qas: answers: text: women and young people
question: UNFPA's mission is to promote the rights and health of whom?

answers: text: governments
question: With whom does UNFPA work in partnership?

answers: text: United Nations agencies
question: With what sort of agencies does UNFPA work?

answers: text: raise awareness
question: In addition to mobilizing support and resources, what does UNFPA do with its partners?

answers: text: communities, NGOs, foundations and the private sector
question: Who does UNFPA work with in addition to government and U.N. agencies?

context: UNFPA has been falsely accused by anti-family planning groups of providing support for government programs which have promoted forced-abortions and coercive sterilizations. Controversies regarding these claims have resulted in a sometimes shaky relationship between the organization and three presidential administrations, that of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, withholding funding from the UNFPA.  
qas: answers: text: forced-abortions
question: UNFPA has  been accused of supporting what type of abortion?

answers: text: sterilizations
question: UNFPA has been accused of supporting programs that coerce what?

answers: text: anti-family planning groups
question: What groups have made these accusations against UNFPA?

answers: text: three
question: Controversy regarding these accusations has caused conflict with how many presidential administrations?

context: Contributions from governments and the private sector to UNFPA in 2014 exceeded $1 billion. The amount includes $477 million to the organization’s core resources and $529 million earmarked for specific programs and initiatives.
qas: answers: text: governments and the private sector
question: Who contributes to UNFPA?

answers: text: $1 billion
question: Contributions exceeded how much in 2014?

answers: text: $529 million
question: How much of its funding was earmarked?

answers: text: $477 million
question: What was the amount of funding for UNFPA's core resources?

context: UNFPA provided aid to Peru's reproductive health program in the mid-to-late '90s. When it was discovered a Peruvian program had been engaged in carrying out coercive sterilizations, UNFPA called for reforms and protocols to protect the rights of women seeking assistance. UNFPA was not involved in the scandal, but continued work with the country after the abuses had become public to help end the abuses and reform laws and practices. 
qas: answers: text: the mid-to-late '90s
question: During what period did UNFPA aid Peru's reproductive health program?

answers: text: sterilizations
question: Peru was found to have been coercing what?

answers: text: reforms and protocols
question: UNFPA responded to Peruvian abuses by calling for what?

answers: text: women seeking assistance
question: UNFPA's goal in Peru was to protect whose rights?

answers: text: laws and practices
question: After the scandal became public, what did UNFPA work to reform in Peru?

context: From 2002 through 2008, the Bush Administration denied funding to UNFPA that had already been allocated by the US Congress, partly on the refuted claims that the UNFPA supported Chinese government programs which include forced abortions and coercive sterilizations. In a letter from the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns to Congress, the administration said it had determined that UNFPA’s support for China’s population program “facilitates (its) government’s coercive abortion program”, thus violating the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which bans the use of United States aid to finance organizations that support or take part in managing a program of coercive abortion of sterilization.
qas: answers: text: the Bush Administration
question: Which 21st century administration denied funding to UNFPA?

answers: text: From 2002 through 2008
question: During what period did the administration deny funding?

answers: text: the US Congress
question: Who allocates UNFPA funding in the U.S.?

answers: text: forced abortions and coercive sterilizations
question: What in the Chinese program caused trouble for UNFPA?

answers: text: the Kemp-Kasten Amendment
question: What amendment did the administration believe the UNFPA funding violated?

context: UNFPA's connection to China's administration of forced abortions was refuted by investigations carried out by various US, UK, and UN teams sent to examine UNFPA activities in China. Specifically, a three-person U.S State Department fact-finding team was sent on a two-week tour throughout China. It wrote in a report to the State Department that it found "no evidence that UNFPA has supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in China," as has been charged by critics.
qas: answers: text: China
question: Which country was administering forced abortions?

answers: text: three
question: How many people were on the U.S. fact-finding team?

answers: text: the State Department
question: Which U.S. department investigated the allegations?

context: However, according to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, the UNFPA contributed vehicles and computers to the Chinese to carry out their population control policies. However, both the Washington Post and the Washington Times reported that Powell simply fell in line, signing a brief written by someone else. 
qas: answers: text: population control policies
question: What policies did a State Department official accuse UNFPA of helping China carry out?

answers: text: Secretary of State
question: What was this official's position at the time?

answers: text: Colin Powell
question: Who was the official that accused UNFPA?

answers: text: vehicles and computers
question: What was UNFPA accused of contributing to the Chinese program?

answers: text: the Washington Post and the Washington Times
question: What papers reported on this incident?

context: Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), criticized the State Department investigation, saying the investigators were shown "Potemkin Villages" where residents had been intimidated into lying about the family-planning program. Dr. Nafis Sadik, former director of UNFPA said her agency had been pivotal in reversing China's coercive population control methods, but a 2005 report by Amnesty International and a separate report by the United States State Department found that coercive techniques were still regularly employed by the Chinese, casting doubt upon Sadik's statements.
qas: answers: text: Christopher H. Smith
question: Which representative criticized the the State Department investigation?

answers: text: Potemkin Villages
question: The representative said that inspectors had been show what sort of villages?

answers: text: Dr. Nafis Sadik
question: Which former director defended UNFPA?

answers: text: Amnesty International
question: Which NGO investigated the Chinese program in 2005?

answers: text: coercive techniques
question: What sort of techniques did the State Department conclude were still being employed by China?

context: But Amnesty International found no evidence that UNFPA had supported the coercion. A 2001 study conducted by the pro-life Population Research Institute (PRI) falsely claimed that the UNFPA shared an office with the Chinese family planning officials who were carrying out forced abortions. "We located the family planning offices, and in that family planning office, we located the UNFPA office, and we confirmed from family planning officials there that there is no distinction between what the UNFPA does and what the Chinese Family Planning Office does," said Scott Weinberg, a spokesman for PRI. However, United Nations Members disagreed and approved UNFPA’s new country program me in January 2006. The more than 130 members of the “Group of 77” developing countries in the United Nations expressed support for the UNFPA programmes. In addition, speaking for European democracies -- Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany -- the United Kingdom stated, ”UNFPA’s activities in China, as in the rest of the world, are in strict conformity with the unanimously adopted Programme of Action of the ICPD, and play a key role in supporting our common endeavor, the promotion and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.” 
qas: answers: text: Amnesty International
question: What organization found no evidence that UNFPA had supported Chinese coercion?

answers: text: Population Research Institute
question: In 2001, what organization accused UNFPA of sharing office space with Chinese family planning officials?

answers: text: United Nations Members
question: In January 2006, who approved UNFPA's new country programme?

answers: text: 130
question: How many members does the “Group of 77” have?

answers: text: the United Kingdom
question: Who, speaking for the European democracies, also defended UNFPA?

context: President Bush denied funding to the UNFPA. Over the course of the Bush Administration, a total of $244 million in Congressionally approved funding was blocked by the Executive Branch.
qas: answers: text: President
question: Which government official blocked funding to the UNFPA?

answers: text: Bush
question: What was the name of the official who blocked UNFPA funding?

answers: text: $244 million
question: How much funding was blocked?

answers: text: the Executive Branch
question: Which branch of government denied the UNFPA funding?

answers: text: Congressionally
question: How had the UNFPA funding been initially approved?

context: In response, the EU decided to fill the gap left behind by the US under the Sandbaek report. According to its Annual Report for 2008, the UNFPA received its funding mainly from European Governments: Of the total income of M845.3 M, $118 was donated by the Netherlands, $67 M by Sweden, $62 M by Norway, $54 M by Denmark, $53 M by the UK, $52 M by Spain, $19 M by Luxembourg. The European Commission donated further $36 M. The most important non-European donor State was Japan ($36 M). The number of donors exceeded 180 in one year.
qas: answers: text: the Netherlands
question: Which European government contributed the most to the UNFPA in 2008?

answers: text: Luxembourg
question: Which European government contributed the least to the UNFPA in 2008?

answers: text: Japan
question: Which non-European donor was most important to the UNFPA in 2008?

answers: text: 180
question: In 2008, over how many countries contributed to the UNFPA?

context: In America, nonprofit organizations like Friends of UNFPA (formerly Americans for UNFPA) worked to compensate for the loss of United States federal funding by raising private donations.
qas: answers: text: America
question: What is one country in which nonprofit organizations try to make up for the loss of United States funding for the UNFPA?

answers: text: nonprofit
question: What kind of organization is Friends of UNFPA?

answers: text: Americans for UNFPA
question: What was Friends of UNFPA's previous name?

answers: text: federal funding
question: What type of United States funding does Friends of UNFPA try to replace? 

answers: text: private donations
question: Through what sort of donations does Friends of UNFPA raise money?

context: In January 2009 President Barack Obama restored US funding to UNFPA, saying in a public statement that he would "look forward to working with Congress to restore US financial support for the UN Population Fund. By resuming funding to UNFPA, the US will be joining 180 other donor nations working collaboratively to reduce poverty, improve the health of women and children, prevent HIV/AIDS and provide family planning assistance to women in 154 countries." 
qas: answers: text: Barack Obama
question: Which president began funding UNFPA again?

answers: text: 2009
question: In what year did U.S. funding of UNFPA resume?

answers: text: January
question: In what month did U.S. funding of UNFPA resume?

answers: text: 180
question: The president said the U.S. would be joining how many donor nations?

answers: text: 154
question: The president said funding the U.N. Population Fund would help in how many countries?