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Germany leading the way in supporting maternal health in the most vulnerable countries

calendar_today13 January 2025

In Niger, maternal mortality rates remain alarmingly high, with 1 in 226 pregnant women dying from pregnancy-related causes. Germany’s support plays a vital role in safeguarding the human right to safe motherhood. © UNFPA Niger
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A safe space to turn: Young women in Yemen support each other to counter digital gender-based violence

calendar_today06 December 2024

Since the start of 2024, nearly 250,000 people in Yemen have received assistance through a UNFPA-supported hotline and in person at mental health centres. Credit: UNFPA Yemen / Ahmed Al Majidi
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5 lessons from 2024 to ensure sexual and reproductive rights for all in 2025

calendar_today26 December 2024

A group of young people at the UNFPA-supported Kibirizi youth space in Rwanda’s Rubengera sector after completing a course on comprehensive sexuality education. ©UNFPA ESARO/Jadwiga Figula
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In Egypt, men and boys stand firm against female genital mutilation

calendar_today02 January 2025

Zanaty El-Sawy first decided to research the topic of female genital mutilation to protect his two daughters. © UNFPA Egypt/Roger Anis
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Do you know your rights? Protections from gender-based violence amid displacement

calendar_today13 December 2024

In Haiti, this mother-of-six was raped while four months pregnant and fleeing from gang violence. © UNFPA Haiti/Wendy Desert
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Bertha Arzú: The Afro-indigenous activist who took on HIV in Honduras

calendar_today27 November 2024

Bertha Arzú walks along the beach in Tela, Honduras. © UNFPA Honduras
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Women deliver babies on the road and under fire as catastrophe grips Sudan’s Aj Jazirah State

calendar_today12 December 2024

As violence intensifies across southeast Sudan, hundreds of thousands of people have fled Aj Jazirah State for neighbouring Gedaref State, taking refuge in cramped, makeshift camps. Credit: © UNFPA Sudan
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“I came to help my sisters”: As Chad grapples with record floods and a refugee crisis, midwives are bridging the divide

calendar_today17 December 2024

A woman collects clean drinking water in a camp sheltering more than 4,000 displaced people after the Chari River flooded in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, in October 2024. Credit: © UNFPA Chad / Karel Prinsloo
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An expectant mother hit by floods in northern Nigeria shares her story

calendar_today16 December 2024

An expectant mother hit by floods in northern Nigeria shares her story

An expectant mother hit by floods in northern Nigeria shares her story

“When the floods hit us, it was two weeks before my expected delivery date.”

Fatima, one of our heroic community mobilizers in Nigeria, is among the many expectant mothers affected by the recent flooding in the northern part of the country.

See her story and how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding to the crisis.  

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