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One year on, Joint Innovation Challenge winners keep up the fight against gender-based violence
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Ending gender-based violence will take commitment, compassion and, as demonstrated by the winners of the 2022 Joint Innovation Challenge, resourcefulness and creativity too.
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Supporting survivors of sexual assault in Ethiopia, and working to stop violence before it starts
Ethiopia
BULE HORA CITY, Ethiopia – Ayantu* was 14 when she was betrayed by someone society had taught her to trust.
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A glimmer of hope for women and girls as a sexual and reproductive health clinic reopens in Sudan’s West Darfur State
Sudan
WEST DARFUR STATE, Sudan – “I came to the health centre after the fighting calmed down, but I found it destroyed – there were no beds left, no equipment, no supplies,” recalled Hiba*, a doctor in the city of El Geneina…
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“It's about our health and our future”: Ensuring sexual and reproductive health support in northern Mozambique
Mozambique
NIASSA PROVINCE, Mozambique – Early in the morning, queues begin to form outside the Lichinga health centre in Mozambique’s northwest Niassa province, as staff prepare to treat patients.
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Indigenous men advocate gender equality to benefit women – and men too
COMARCA NGABE BUGLE, Panama – Gender inequality is pervasive everywhere. Globally, 9 in 10 people around the world, both women and men, continue to harbour gender biases, according to a recent United Nations report.…
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Tackling the hidden mental health crisis in Yemen
IBB GOVERNORATE, Yemen – “I wanted to be a midwife – midwives are respected. I thought being a midwife would give me the freedom to help and guide other women to have fulfilling lives,” Kholoud told UNFPA, the United…
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Midwives go door-to-door amid flooding in Peru, reaching thousands with critical health services
Peru
PIURA, Peru – In the first months of 2023, torrential rains flooded the streets of Veintiséis de Octubre in Peru’s northwestern Piura district, interrupting city services and trapping people in their homes. For 30-year-…
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Heroes amid crises – 8 stories of resilience and hope from 2023
UNITED NATIONS, New York – From droughts to floods, displacement and conflicts – the cycle of despair in 2023 seemed unstoppable. Yet in crisis after crisis, so were the accounts of the selfless and the heroic. As the…
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An unequal world: Designing a safer, healthier place for women and girls in Argentina, Cameroon and Uganda
United Nations, NEW YORK – What would the world look like if it was designed by and for women?
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UNFPA-supported cash vouchers programme eases access to care for women living with HIV in Indonesia
Indonesia
Jakarta, INDONESIA – “When I first learned that I had HIV, I felt like my world was falling apart,” 39-year-old mother-of-two Wati* told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, in 2022.
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$1.2 billion needed in urgent UNFPA appeal for women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in 2024
UNITED NATIONS, New York – This year saw records toppled one after the other: The hottest year in human history; the highest number of people displaced; hunger crises at their worst.
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Breaking with tradition in Malawi: Communities band together to protect girls’ rights
Malawi
CHIKWAWA, Malawi – Sixteen-year-old Fanny Galeta wasn’t sure how to react when her mother told her that her initiation ceremony had been planned. Over the years, Fanny had heard many stories about these ceremonies – and…
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