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Across Afghanistan, resourceful midwives brave multiple barriers to ensure maternal health and safe births
- 15 August 2023
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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the Taliban’s decision to ban Afghan women from working with the United Nations
06 April 2023
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UNFPA midwives on call to ensure safe births in Afghanistan’s most remote villages
- 16 March 2023
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UPPER EGYPT, Egypt – “People tell me we inherited this practice – that they’re doing it because their neighbours are doing it,” Georgi Wahba told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.
In his…
02 January 2025
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NEW YORK, United Nations – Germany is reinforcing its commitment to addressing the most urgent humanitarian needs of women and girls around the world by contributing an additional US$2.2 million to UNFPA, the United…
03 December 2024
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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…
02 December 2024
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Taliban banning women from higher education and from working with humanitarian organizations
26 December 2022
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Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Afghanistan, Women’s participation in aid delivery must continue
28 December 2022
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New US funding supports reproductive health and protection services in Afghanistan
26 Sep 2022
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“Giving up is not an option”: Hope for Afghans forced out of school
- 13 September 2022
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Girls in Afghanistan want to go back to school
Published on: 13/09/2022
One year after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, 17-year-old Mursal is still in disbelief that she can’t go back to school.
“It’s not right that they’re ordering us to hide our faces and stop going to school. I hope that young girls will not give up,” she says.
See how Mursal is giving back to her community with UNFPA’s help.
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Midwives in Afghanistan defy constraints and crises to save lives of women and newborns
- 17 August 2022
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