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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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Investing in equality: How young women are innovating to improve their health, rights and lives

calendar_today07 March 2024

In the United Republic of Tanzania, Juliana Magesa founded Young Mums Unite, a support group where mothers aged 15 to 24 can access information and essential services, including family planning, maternal health care and counselling. © UNFPA/Msomi Huru
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A travelling theatre in Guinea-Bissau sparks conversations and changes minds about gender-based violence

calendar_today29 February 2024

Members of Guinea-Bissau’s National Ballet, the Nossa Patria Amada, perform a dance scene at a local market in Bissorã, in the Oio region, to raise awareness against gender-based violence. © UNFPA Guinea-Bissau/Pierre Bussiere
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From recovery to resilience: Zeynab's story after the earthquakes in Northwest Syria

calendar_today21 February 2024

Thanks to a UNFPA safe space, Zeynab has learned a range of new livelihood skills and is getting back on her feet financially and psychologically following the traumatic earthquakes of February 2023. © Muhannad Barbori/Ihsan Organization.
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Somali survivors of female genital mutilation advocate to change minds – and lives

calendar_today26 February 2024

UNFPA and UNICEF’s Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation works with grassroots activists to encourage communities to abandon the practice. © UNFPA Somalia
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Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee - Civilians in Gaza in extreme peril while the world watches on: Ten requirements to avoid an even worse catastrophe

calendar_today21 February 2024

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UK announces £4.25 million (c. $5.3 million) for UNFPA’s humanitarian response in the occupied Palestinian territories to support women and girls

calendar_today25 February 2024

The new UK contribution will enable UNFPA to provide more critical reproductive health supplies to Gaza. © UNFPA/Bisan Ouda
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UNFPA urges leaders to address gendered, discriminatory impacts of climate change at COP28

calendar_today29 November 2023

The 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) will run from 30 November to 12 December in Dubai. © United Nations
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After surviving sexual violence, youth leader creates change for girls with disabilities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

calendar_today13 February 2024

Ngoma*, who has a hearing disability, was attacked at aged 15 by a group of boys in her hometown of Matadi in the the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA DRC/Jeremie Kibuya
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