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“I know how to listen”: Midwives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo use groundbreaking new birth model to care for pregnant survivors of sexual violence

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Midwife Aimée Nzimire assists labouring mother Valerine Mwamini. Though the Panzi hospital's new "Transforming Birth" model is designed to serve survivors of gender-based violence, Ms. Mwamini is not herself a GBV survivor. © UNFPA Democratic Republic of the Congo/Lisa Thanner
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Historic drought in the Horn of Africa: Women and girls fleeing one crisis for another

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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
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International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 2023

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Countering female genital mutilation in Sudan: “I didn’t know it was possible not to cut my daughter”

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Members of a UNFPA-supported community network in Sudan speak to women in about the dangers of female genital mutilation. © UNFPA Sudan
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United Republic of Tanzania: How a UNFPA-UN Women joint programme helps combat gender-based violence and promote bodily autonomy, with support from the Government of the Republic of Korea

calendar_today08 February 2023

Young adolescent girls from Msalala District, residing in the Bugarama Ward, Tanzania, are members of the girls’ club supported by a Republic of Korea-funded UNFPA-UN Women’s joint programme. The programme helps combat gender-based violence and promote bodily autonomy. © UNFPA Tanzania/Warren Bright
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KYIV, Ukraine — “When the alarm went off, we were all rushed into the shelter,” said Oksana, who is 26 weeks pregnant. “Even the tiniest babies from the neonatal intensive care unit were brought down by nurses and aides…
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As drought tightens its grip on Kenya, a motorcycle ambulance is helping women to access critical health care

calendar_today12 January 2023

The motorcycle ambulance has significantly reduced the time required to deliver essential and urgent medical assistance to local communities.© UNFPA/Luis Tato
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Severe drought fuels malnutrition and reduces hospital deliveries among pregnant women in Kenya’s Turkana County

calendar_today27 December 2022

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

Ireland contributes 2 million euros to safeguard access to reproductive health and protection services in drought-affected Horn of Africa

calendar_today19 December 2022

Women are provided with dignity kits by UNFPA in Ceel Jale 1, Kismayo, an IDP camp in Somalia. New Irish funding will help scale up the drought response in the Horn of Africa. © UNFPA Somalia
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Women and girls in a double crisis of violence and hunger in Somalia

calendar_today12 December 2022

Women and girls in a double crisis of violence and hunger in Somalia

Women and girls in a double crisis of violence and hunger in Somalia

Did you know there has been a 60 per cent increase in gender-based violence in drought-affected areas in Somalia?

Women and girls are bearing the brunt of the unfolding catastrophe in the Horn of Africa. See how UNFPA is providing life-saving assistance on the ground.

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