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Over coffee, young people in the Maldives discuss sexual and reproductive health
Maldives
Safe Space provides a venue to explore sensitive topics.
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One year later, flood-affected women in Peru struggle for protection and reproductive health care
Peru
Protection and reproductive health needs are still acute among flood-affected women and girls.
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Drama helps battle child marriage in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
On the surface, child marriage seems to affect few girls, but dig a little deeper, and a pattern emerges among the most marginalized.
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Sport offers gateway to reproductive health, human rights, peace
Iraq
Sport helps draw vulnerable youth to programmes where they can receive critical information and services.
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Rural midwives help save mothers in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Rural midwives are working to end preventable maternal deaths.
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Five reasons migration is a feminist issue
The needs of women and girls are falling through the cracks.
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Delivering into chaos: Gunfire, arson and childbirth in rural Kenya
Kenya
Under armed attack, Lena Towai fled into the wilderness and gave birth in the dark – assisted only by a neighbour with a gunshot wound.
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From midwife to MP - Advancing the rights of women in the Comoros
Comoros
A midwife has become the only female Member of Parliament in the Comoros. She brings the fight for gender equality with her.
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“The world needs to open their eyes”: Kasai survivors call for attention to crisis
Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo
“When they entered the village, they started to kill everybody, without exception,” Antone, a 50-year-old refugee, told UNFPA.
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Escaping child marriage in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
"According to our tradition, a girl should get married when she reaches puberty," said Zainab Binta Jalloh.
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Women's centre in Iraq helps women "knit" their lives back together
Iraq
Three years ago, conflict forced Haneen Ali* to flee her home in Mosul, in northern Iraq. With her parents, she hiked through minefields before finding safety in the Debaga camp. “The journey was long and tiring,” said…
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In the Philippines, information key to halting teenage pregnancy
Philippines
Universities are throwing their weight behind efforts to end teen pregnancy.
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