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Defying conflict and child marriage to champion girls’ education and rights in Ethiopia

The UNFPA-supported safe house in Ethiopia’s Benishangul Gumuz region is a sanctuary for up to 100 survivors of gender-based violence. The centre offers counselling, medical care and training courses, as well as a safe space to take refuge. © UNFPA/Fasil Zenebe/Mopix
  • 02 October 2023
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Launch of First Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Development Impact Bond in Kenya

05 Oct 2023

Adolescent girls download the TIKO App to access services offered with funding provided through the ASRH DIB. © Triggerise
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Stopping violence against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Published on: 02/10/2023

*Pierette almost died after being raped by two bandits while she was fetching wood in the forest.

See her story and how UNFPA came to her aid.

*Name changed for protection

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UNFPA Democratic Republic of the Congo Situation Report - Humanitarian Response Scale up: Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu Provinces (01-31 August 2023)

Resource date: Sep 2023

Publisher: UNFPA

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Portable ultrasounds give pregnant women a ray of hope amid crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Anita Bosco, 35, receives an ultrasound scan from UNFPA midwife Kavira Kamate at the Kanyaruchinya health centre in North Kivu, close to the Bujari camp for people displaced by ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA DRC/Junior Mayindu
  • 27 September 2023
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Midwives save lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ‌

Published on: 01/09/2023

Amid conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, midwives deployed by UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—are providing life-saving care for pregnant women in need.

Find out more about our ongoing humanitarian response to the crisis here.

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Beating the odds: Resilience, hope and safe births at a UNFPA mobile clinic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Midwife Fyfy Omoyi hands Ms. Bembeleza her newborn, who was delivered safely at the UNFPA mobile health clinic at the Bulengo displacement camp. The camp is currently sheltering more than 100,000 people who have fled brutal conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ©UNFPA DRC/Jonas Yunus
  • 31 August 2023
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UNFPA Humanitarian Response in DRC: Situation Report - July 2023

Resource date: Jul 2023

Publisher: UNFPA DRC

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“Sometimes she was desperate”: How survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are healing with the help of UNFPA’s frontline workers

Anny* and her daughter were raped at gunpoint while collecting firewood near the Bulengo camp for internally displaced people, where they are taking shelter from the conflict in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA DRC/Junior Mayindu
  • 18 August 2023
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