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Mozambique, Angola help girls manage menstrual health and hygiene in crisis and beyond
Angola, Bahamas, Mozambique
It can be challenging enough when a girl gets her first period – she may not even know what is happening to her body. Now put her in a situation in which she’s been displaced or vulnerable because of a natural disaster…
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First menstruation is often accompanied by fear, shame, lack of information, women and girls in Arab states reveal
An informal online survey in the region found 24 of 69 respondents had no information about menstruation prior to experiencing their first period.
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COVID-19 heightened menstruation challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean; action and investment needed
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life for people around the globe, including the way people experience and perceive menstruation. Latin America and the Caribbean region has been no exception.
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Urgent funding needed to assist survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Tigray
Ethiopia
“I was running from place to place without food or shelter. I was in fear all the time... There was no safe place for me until I got to the safe house,” 22-year-old Selam* recounted to UNFPA.
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Piloting drones to deliver life-saving products for women in rural Botswana
Botswana
This month, Botswana became the first country in Southern Africa, and the third in Africa, to pilot drone technology for health-care delivery.
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Au Mozambique, le parcours d'une survivante de la fistule obstétricale, de « je n'étais rien » à « je suis capable de tout »
Mozambique
Beatriz Sebastião suffered in silence. She had no friends in the neighborhood or at school. When she went to church, she sat alone. When she went to the river, other women mocked her before leaving to bathe elsewhere.…
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In Mozambique, an obstetric fistula survivor's journey from "I was nothing" to "I am capable of everything"
Mozambique
Beatriz Sebastião suffered in silence. She had no friends in the neighborhood or at school. When she went to church, she sat alone. When she went to the river, other women mocked her before leaving to bathe elsewhere.…
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Tanzanian helpline reaching thousands of at-risk women and girls every day
Tanzania, United Republic of
“I was very scared on behalf of the poor child. I felt her pain,” the counsellor told Dr. Kanem. “But I told myself I should be strong for that child."
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Serving survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
These survivors are not passive victims; they are emboldened and calling for change.
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Girl advocates in India step up to protect health, human rights amid the pandemic
India
Young people are doing their part to protect their communities from the virus.
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Laotian LGBTQIA+ youth find peace, purpose and community
Growing up, Bill didn’t have anywhere to go to about the confusion she felt about her gender identity. In secondary school, classmates used to taunt her feminine mannerisms, calling her “sissy” and “kathoey” (“ladyboy…
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Budding photographers in post-cyclone Bangladesh capture wreckage – and resilience
Bangladesh
One year ago this month, Cyclone Amphan unleashed its fury across Bangladesh, killing 26 and damaging thousands of homes, agricultural lands, bridges and roads. But even as the headlines receded like the waters and the…
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