HM Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck’s 21 years of journey as UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador to Bhutan

Her Majesty The Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck, Queen Mother of Bhutan, was announced as the individual laureate for the 2020 United Nations Population Award to recognize her outstanding contribution in raising awareness and devising solutions to population and reproductive health issues.
Her Majesty is a longstanding champion of sexual and reproductive health and rights and the need to end violence against women, girls and children in Bhutan. Among her many achievements in recent decades, she has helped to create an enabling environment to openly discuss sexual reproductive health in the kingdom and founded a volunteer organization called “Respect, Educate, Nurture and Empower Women” (RENEW) in 2004. She has also been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA for more than 20 years.