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

calendar_today14 March 2025

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

calendar_today24 September 2024

Women and girls who have been displaced from their homes take refuge in a bus shelter. © UNFPA Sudan / Sufian Abdul-Mouty
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As Russian air strikes escalate against Ukraine, a hospital in Kyiv struggles to care for pregnant women and newborns

calendar_today27 August 2024

The Kyiv Regional Perinatal Centre, supported by UNFPA, is a critical maternity and newborn health facility in the city. Credit UNFPA Ukraine/ Isaac Hurskin
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“Haïti must rise from her ashes”: Health workers on the front lines of a spiralling crisis 

calendar_today28 March 2024

A UNFPA-supported mobile health team visits a displacement site near Haïti’s capital Port-au-Prince. © FAHDRIS/Richy Mix
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Women and girls’ rights are an unseen casualty of the crisis in Syria

calendar_today10 May 2022

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

calendar_today20 June 2023

UNFPA deploys mobile response teams to communities affected by conflict and crisis. © UNFPA Colombia
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War in Ukraine shocks global food supply, putting lives at risk

calendar_today27 April 2022

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

calendar_today20 April 2022

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
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Ukrainian refugees build new lives far from home

calendar_today05 April 2022

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

calendar_today31 March 2022

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
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