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Do you know your rights? Protections from gender-based violence amid displacement
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Disasters and wars drive people from their homes and into displacement, insecurity, and skyrocketing risk of abuses like rape, child marriage and trafficking.
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Women deliver babies on the road and under fire as catastrophe grips Sudan’s Aj Jazirah State
Sudan
AJ JAZIRAH STATE, Sudan – This was Amina’s fifth delivery by Caesarean section, but the first performed on the floor of a stranger’s home. “I had to start walking again just six hours later, carrying my baby while my…
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A beacon of hope: How UNFPA safe rooms are transforming lives in Tajikistan
Tajikistan
RUDAKI, Tajikistan – At a maternity house in Tajikistan’s western Rudaki district, women and girls can seek some unexpected, yet sorely needed, extra services. Thanks to an initiative by UNFPA, the United Nations sexual…
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A safe space to turn: Young women in Yemen support each other to counter digital gender-based violence
Yemen
MARIB/TAIZZ, Yemen – At just 26 years old, Abeer has already lived through nearly a decade of war in Yemen. She fled her home in Dhamar in 2016, walking and hitchhiking for eight hours with her husband and young…
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Three global trends on a collision course… with women and girls at the crossroads
UNITED NATIONS, New York – As 2024 draws to a close, the world is grappling with ever-intensifying crises. UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has just launched a $1.4 billion humanitarian…
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Hope amid despair: A Gaza mother’s struggle to be with her baby
GAZA STRIP, Occupied Palestinian Territory – “My pregnancy during the war was very difficult,” 28-year-old Nadia* told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. “I was really afraid for the baby.”
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Tanzanian women highlight the path from bodily autonomy to sustainable development
ZANZIBAR, United Republic of Tanzania – “When I learned about family planning, I felt like I had control over my life,” said Mwanaisha Rajabu, a 28-year-old mother of three living in Fuoni, a village on the Unguja…
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Bertha Arzú: The Afro-indigenous activist who took on HIV in Honduras
Honduras
TELA, Honduras – In the early 2000s, even as the AIDS epidemic began to wane, one country in Central America remained disproportionately endangered by the virus: Honduras. At the time, more than half of all cases in…
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Nadia’s song of resilience: Raising her voice amid crisis and displacement
Syrian Arab Republic
UNITED NATIONS, New York – “I've loved singing since I was a child,” 24-year-old Nadia told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. “It is my way of expressing my feelings and thoughts.”
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Men in detention face sexual torture amid war in Ukraine
Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine – In the early hours of the morning, at a location in Ukraine not far from the front line of the war, Antonina* found herself staring at a disturbing message on her phone. It was a video recording of her…
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“Where are we supposed to go?”: Women and girls in northern Gaza endure displacement, hunger and healthcare under attack
Palestine, State of
NORTH GAZA, Occupied Palestinian Territory – Adla was forced from her home in Jabalia, in North Gaza, after it was demolished by Israeli forces. “We had no mattress, no food, no clothes – nothing. We fled the airstrikes…
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Meeting women's and girls' needs where they are to prevent and address gender-based violence
New York
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Too often, when conflict and crisis force women and girls to flee their homes, gender-based abuse follows close behind. Amid the chaos of displacement, the threat of violence by armed actors,…
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