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“The people in Syria are destroyed from war”: A call for peace after violence in the coastal region

A young woman stands in front of a window at the UNFPA-supported centre in Homs which helps young people with their mental and social well-being, education and livelihood training, as well as youth empowerment initiatives. © UNFPA Syria / Alaa Ghorra

14 March 2025

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“They are like family”: Mobile health workers care for women and girls uprooted by conflict in Sudan

Women and girls who have been displaced from their homes take refuge in a bus shelter. © UNFPA Sudan / Sufian Abdul-Mouty

24 September 2024

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As Russian air strikes escalate against Ukraine, a hospital in Kyiv struggles to care for pregnant women and newborns

The Kyiv Regional Perinatal Centre, supported by UNFPA, is a critical maternity and newborn health facility in the city. Credit UNFPA Ukraine/ Isaac Hurskin

27 August 2024

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“Haïti must rise from her ashes”: Health workers on the front lines of a spiralling crisis

A UNFPA-supported mobile health team visits a displacement site near Haïti’s capital Port-au-Prince. © FAHDRIS/Richy Mix

28 March 2024

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Women and girls’ rights are an unseen casualty of the crisis in Syria

“It was the worst experience of our lives, even after 10 years of crisis in Syria,” explained Khadija, a 28-year-old Syrian woman from Deir ez-Zor, who recently survived a harrowing journey as she gave birth to her sixth child while fleeing violence in her hometown. © UNFPA Syria

10 May 2022

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“A fight against oblivion”: How Colombia empowers communities to combat conflict-related sexual violence

UNFPA deploys mobile response teams to communities affected by conflict and crisis. © UNFPA Colombia

20 June 2023

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War in Ukraine shocks global food supply, putting lives at risk

A young mother and her baby are weighed before being examined for malnutrition at UNFPA-supported Marib General hospital in Yemen, a country that relies heavily on food imports. Skyrocketing food prices have increased the number of people in need of food assistance from 16.2 million in 2021 to 19 million people in 2022. © UN/Giles Clarke

27 April 2022

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Women and girls in South Sudan battle mounting sexual violence amid conflict and climate crises

Women return from collecting firewood in South Sudan's Unity State, which has seen alarming levels of gender-based violence amid mounting conflict and spiralling climate catastrophes. ©UNFPA South Sudan

20 April 2022

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Ukrainian refugees build new lives far from home

Ivanna Povchenuik (center) left her home in Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine with her two children for the Polish border, from where they continued to Belgium, a journey that took 35 hours. © Martin Thaulow

05 April 2022

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Midwives ensure life-saving reproductive health care for women returning to Afghanistan

Midwife Zul Haja displays some of the reproductive health care supplies she provides for women at the Zero Point clinic in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province, on the border with Pakistan. © UNFPA/Stenly Sajow

31 March 2022

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