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Fadma and the forest: Learning from the past for a flourishing future in rural Morocco

Producing Argan oil involves hitting the tree’s nuts on stone anvils with rocks to get to their kernels. © UNFPA Morocco

28 August 2023

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After flooding and rains devastate Peru, survivors of gender-based violence find safety and services at UNFPA-supported shelter

Cyclone Yaku and the El Niño weather phenomenon have forced more than 110,000 people from their homes and into temporary shelters like La Molina II. © UNFPA Perú

21 August 2023

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As drought and floods threaten millions in Ethiopia, midwives are a lifeline for pregnant women and newborns

In Ethiopia's Somali region, a camp in the village of Gabi’as shelters hundreds of households displaced by drought. Over 260,000 women are currently pregnant in the Somali region alone, many of them internally displaced from recurrent, multiple crises and at dire risk of acute undernourishment, without access to even the most basic health care. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Paula Seijo

07 July 2023

Ensuring critical maternal health services after cyclone Freddy wreaks havoc in Malawi

Cyclone Freddy, the longest-lasting and most travelled tropical storm on record, has caused severe flooding and mudslides, with hundreds killed, health centres submerged and entire villages left stranded as roads and bridges were washed away. © UNFPA/Eldson Chagara

29 March 2023

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Historic drought in the Horn of Africa: Women and girls fleeing one crisis for another

Rukia Yaroow Ali, 38, was displaced with her nine children by the worst drought that Somalia – and the whole of the Horn of Africa – has seen in 40 years. Here she holds her youngest child outside their shelter at Hagadera refugee camp in Daadab, Garissa county, Kenya. © UNFPA/Luis Tato

24 March 2023

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Least responsible, hardest hit: New UNFPA brief explores climate change’s disproportionate harm on people of African descent

UNFPA’s new advocacy brief, “In Our Words: Voices of Women of African Descent for Reproductive and Climate Justice”, explores how climate change disproportionately harms women of African descent. © UNFPA Brasil/Eduardo Cavalcanti

21 March 2023

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In our words: Voices of Women of African Descent for Reproductive and Climate Justice

Number of pages: 34

Publication date: 31 Dec 2022

Publisher: UNFPA

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Severe drought fuels malnutrition and reduces hospital deliveries among pregnant women in Kenya’s Turkana County

Health workers attend to pregnant and breastfeeding mothers at an outreach visit supported by UNFPA in Loima Sub-county. © UNFPA/Luis Tato

27 December 2022

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Reclaiming hope and justice for survivors of sexual violence during drought and hunger crisis in Somalia

A nurse walks through an settlement camp for displaced people in Garowe, Puntland, speaking to women as part of an initiative to convince mothers to stop practising female genital mutilation on their daughters. © UNFPA Somalia/Tobin Jones

08 November 2022

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