United_Nations_Population_Fund

qas: question: What is the current name of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities?
answers: text: United Nations Population Fund

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

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

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

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

question: What does UNFPA try to avoid?

question: What does UNFPA not provide?

question: Where has UNFPA been the most unknown recently?

question: What local campaigns is UNFPA most involved with?
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: question: In how many geographic regions does UNFPA operate?
answers: text: four

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

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

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

question: How many countries do not yet support UNFPA?

question: What region is UNFPA solely located in?

question: What groups are not yet involved with UNFPA?

question: What fraction of workers are located in Latin America?
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: question: When did UNFPA begin its work?
answers: text: 1969

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

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

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

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

question: Why did UNFPA never change their name?

question: What authority was never involved with UNFPA?

question: What year did the United Nations General Assembly disband?

question: What was the United Nations Fund not known for?
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: question: When did the U.N. vote to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals?
answers: text: 2015

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

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

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

question: How many member states voted against Sustainable Development Goals?

question: How many years did it take to form the goals?

question: What goals aimed at keeping things the same in the world?

question: Which goals were designed to increase poverty?

question: What was considered unimportant to the UN?
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: question: Are the Sustainable Development Goals considered ambitious or modest in scope?
answers: text: ambitious

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

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

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

question: The third of the goals is to decrease what?

question: What does Goal 4 desire to eradicate?

question: What topic was ignored by Goal 5?

question: What goals were seen as being easily solved by states alone?
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: question: Who was Executive Director or Under-Secretary General from 1969 to 1987?
answers: text: Rafael M. Salas

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

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

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

question: Dr Babatunde Osotimehin has never been to what country?

question: Who from the UN was missing during 1969-87?

question: Which doctor from Pakistan served until 2010?

question: What man served from Saudi Arabia?

question: What Nigerian was falsely known as being a doctor?
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: question: UNFPA is the largest worldwide funder of what type of programs?
answers: text: population and reproductive health programs

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

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

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

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

question: What is one of the world's smallest sources of funding for population and reproductive health programs?

question: How many countries are not yet in support?

question: What programs are not focused on by UNFPA?

question: What fund doesn't work with governments?
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: question: UNFPA lists elements that promote what human right?
answers: text: reproductive health

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

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

question: UNFPA lists elements that neglect what human right?

question: These elements ignore health related to reproduction and what else?

question: What element is not important to the UNFPA?

question: What is not seen as a right to the UNFPA?
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: question: Where does The Fund work to raise awareness and provide support?
answers: text: developing countries

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

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

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

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

question: Where does The Fund work to lower awareness and decrease support?

question: To what does The Fund advocate that no attention be paid?

question: Who refused to take leadership of The Fund in January 2011?

question: Who else is not represented by The Fund?
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: question: UNFPA's mission is to promote the rights and health of whom?
answers: text: women and young people

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

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

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

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

question: UNFPA's mission is to deny the rights and health of whom?

question: With whom does UNFPA avoid partnering with?

question: With what sort of agencies does UNFPA not work with?

question: In addition to mobilizing support and resources, what does UNFPA want to decrease?

question: Who is hurt most by the UNFPA?
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: question: UNFPA has  been accused of supporting what type of abortion?
answers: text: forced-abortions

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

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

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

question: Who was UNFPA accurately accused by?

question: Controversy regarding these accusations has caused harmony with how many presidential administrations?

question: What groups have dismissed these accusations against UNFPA?

question: Which administrations funded UNFPA the most?

question: What claims were not controversial?
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: question: Who contributes to UNFPA?
answers: text: governments and the private sector

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

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

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

question: Who never contributed to UNFPA?

question: Contributions were lowered by how much in 2014?

question: How much funding was not earmarked correctly?

question: What was the amount taken away from UNFPA's core resources?
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: question: During what period did UNFPA aid Peru's reproductive health program?
answers: text: the mid-to-late '90s

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

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

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

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

question: Who refused aid to Peru's reproductive health program in the mid-to-late '80s?

question: Peru was found to have been protecting against what?

question: UNFPA's goal in Peru was to destroy whose rights?

question: After the scandal became private, what did UNFPA work to reform in Peru?
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: question: Which 21st century administration denied funding to UNFPA?
answers: text: the Bush Administration

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

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

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

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

question: Which 21st century administration increased funding to UNFPA?

question: During what period did the administration increase funding the most?

question: Who will never allocate UNFPA funding in the U.S.?

question: What amendment did the administration believe the UNFPA funding supported?

question: What claims were not refuted?
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: question: Which country was administering forced abortions?
answers: text: China

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

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

question: Which country was administering the fewest abortions?

question: How many people were on the Chinese fact-finding team?

question: Which U.S. department ignored the allegations?

question: Which organization had no critics?
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: question: What policies did a State Department official accuse UNFPA of helping China carry out?
answers: text: population control policies

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

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

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

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

question: What policies did a State Department official accuse UNFPA of not helping China carry out?

question: Who was the official that was part of UNFPA?

question: What was UNFPA accused of taking away from the Chinese program?

question: What papers denied to report on this incident?
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: question: Which representative criticized the the State Department investigation?
answers: text: Christopher H. Smith

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

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

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

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

question: Which representative helped the the State Department investigation the most?

question: The representative said that inspectors had never seen what sort of villages?

question: Which former director disliked UNFPA?

question: What sort of techniques did the State Department conclude were never employed by China?

question: Which NGO investigated the Chinese program in 2002?
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: question: What organization found no evidence that UNFPA had supported Chinese coercion?
answers: text: Amnesty International

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

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

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

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

question: What organization found plenty of evidence that UNFPA had supported Chinese coercion?

question: How many members does the “Group of 44” have?

question: In January 2006, who destroyed UNFPA's new country programme?

question: Who, speaking for the European democracies, also disliked UNFPA?

question: What organization was sharing office space with Chinese family planning officials in 2011?
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: question: Which government official blocked funding to the UNFPA?
answers: text: President

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

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

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

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

question: Which government official increased funding to the UNFPA?

question: What was the name of the official who increased UNFPA funding?

question: How much was funding increased by?

question: Which administration increased funding to 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: question: Which European government contributed the most to the UNFPA in 2008?
answers: text: the Netherlands

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

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

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

question: Which non-European donor took away their donation to the UNFPA in 2008?

question: How many countries stopped supporting the UNFPA in 2008?

question: Which European government never contributed to the UNFPA in 2008?

question: What report was not left behind by the US?

question: What year did UNFPA receive funding mainly from non-European sources?
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: 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: America

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

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

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

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

question: What is one country in which nonprofit organizations try to increase the loss of funding for the UNFPA?

question: What kind of organization is not friends of UNFPA?

question: What organization is mainly funded through public donations?

question: What country has never been involved with 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: question: Which president began funding UNFPA again?
answers: text: Barack Obama

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

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

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

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

question: Which president never funded UNFPA again?

question: In what year did U.S. funding of UNFPA end?

question: In what month did U.S. funding of UNFPA end?

question: Who said funding the U.N. Population Fund would not help 154 countries?

question: What program funded in 2009 does not help women?
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."