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Eight Years On: Rohingya Women and Girls Need the World’s Support More Than Ever

calendar_today25 August 2025

In the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, this young woman longs for safety, dignity and a future of opportunity. Without urgent funding, thousands like her risk losing the only safe spaces that protect and empower them. @UNFPA Bangladesh/Peter Rozario
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Despite steep funding cuts, heroic teacher determined to keep girls in school and out of child marriage in Yemen

calendar_today21 April 2025

Some 1.5 million girls in Yemen are not in school, which blights their future learning and employment opportunities and exposes them to higher risks of child marriage. ©YWU
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Mental health support teams in Ukraine offer a lifeline in a warzone

calendar_today26 February 2025

UNFPA’s mobile psychosocial support teams travel across Ukraine, including to the front lines, offering immediate emergency interventions as well as access to longer-term assistance. Credit: UNFPA Ukraine
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Investing in skilled midwives to save lives and brighten futures in Yemen

calendar_today10 February 2025

A UNFPA-supported programme to train future midwives at a higher education institute in Aden, Yemen. ©UNFPA Yemen
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Women, girls see health access deteriorate as hostilities intensify displacements across Gaza, Lebanon and Syria

calendar_today10 October 2024

Damage to Al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza, seen in April of 2024. The hostilities have only escalated since then. © UNFPA / Dominic Allen
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Childbirth on the run: Amid mass exodus in Lebanon, medical support urgently needed

calendar_today04 October 2024

Amal was born on 2 October the border as her mother fled the escalating hostilities in Lebanon. © Omaya AL Mekdad / UNFPA Syria
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The European Union and UNFPA join forces to strengthen women's health in Afghanistan

calendar_today24 September 2024

The contribution will be directed towards support in reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health and nutrition care in Afghanistan for the next three years. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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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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“There are people willing to listen”: How census takers go above and beyond to count people as they are

calendar_today10 July 2024

Census supervisor Alejandra Alarcón Soliz helped a woman in labour access care amid the country’s census. © UNFPA Bolivia / Alejandra Alarcón Soliz
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Between conflict and climate crises, midwives deliver hope for mothers and newborns in Yemen

calendar_today06 May 2024

When Mona began working as a midwife in her local health centre 30 years ago, she was the first in Yemen’s Hadramout Governorate. © UNFPA Yemen
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