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In this refugee camp, midwives have delivered over 14,000 babies with zero maternal deaths

calendar_today10 January 2022

Ammoun Kitabi cradles a newborn in Zaatari camp. As a Jordanian midwife trained in Syria, she feels a deep connection to the Syrian refugees under her care. © UNFPA Jordan
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With funding from partners, Ethiopian radio talk shows aim to end female genital mutilation

calendar_today18 November 2021

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Rising from the ashes: A Yemen family's new home

calendar_today13 September 2021

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In July 2021, the Al-Ashur family tent burned down in the Om Elhadage internally displaced persons camp in Marib, home to 150 people. The Al-Ashurs – a grandfather, two parents and 7 children – had come to the camp when fighting near their home close to the front lines intensified, forcing them to leave. The family slept in the open air until a UNFPA-led Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) team, while distributing emergency relief, volunteered to help rebuild the family’s temporary home, completing it in 48 hours.

Above, the family patriarch and his granddaughter search for anything they can salvage among the ashes of what used to be their home. They were able to find items for cooking but not much else, losing all their clothes and bedding they had brought when they fled to the camp. © UNFPA Yemen

A RRM team began to lend a hand in rebuilding the family’s tent by erecting the bones of the home. The RRM provides assistance to the newly displaced, distributing women’s dignity kits from the UNFPA, food from the World Food Programme and family hygiene kits from UNICEF, within 72 hours from the onset of displacement. The RRM is funded by the European Union Humanitarian Aid, Central Emergency Response Fund and Yemen Humanitarian Fund.© UNFPA Yemen

After the tent took two days to complete, RRM team members brought basic necessities to the family as well as to other families in the camp. UNFPA also supports the camp with mobile outreach teams consisting of a doctor, midwife, nurse, pharmacist, medical assistant and psychologist that provide reproductive health services including antenatal and postnatal care and family planning, psychosocial counselling and other gender-based violence support services. © UNFPA Yemen

 

Said Al-Ashur and one of his granddaughters, Kholoud, 11, carry supplies back to their new home. Children in the camp are currently not attending school and mostly help with household chores.© UNFPA Yemen

Sisters (from left) Kholoud, 11, and Asma, 13, tend to cooking with pots provided in the RRM relief package. Girls are often responsible for fetching water and firewood for cooking fuel. © UNFPA Yemen

 

In Om Elhadage camp, UNFPA distributed relief boxes to the 25 families living there. Since January 2021, the RRM has provided emergency relief to nearly 30,000 people in Marib Governorate, a hotspot of intense fighting. In addition, UNFPA has reached nearly 100,000 people with reproductive health and gender-based violence services there. © UNFPA Yemen

 

The family in the doorway of their new home, thatched with straw. © UNFPA Yemen

After a long day helping rebuild her family’s tent, Faten, 10, combs her hair with items from the RRM kit. Tonight will be the first night in three weeks she once again has a home to call her own. © UNFPA Yemen

Mother, Umm Asmaa, prepares dinner for her family. An estimated 73 per cent of the more than 4 million people displaced in Yemen are women and children. © UNFPA Yemen

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In Libya, a chance at a future after violence and rejection

calendar_today07 September 2021

Women participate in a group activity at a women and girls safe space in Tripoli. There are four UNFPA-supported safe spaces for gender-based violence survivors and women and girls at risk throughout Libya. © UNFPA Libya
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Young leaders blaze the trail toward a more equitable future

calendar_today11 August 2021

Maimuna Khatun, 18, lives in a displacement camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where she volunteers as an interpreter at a learning centre. She also teaches community members about sexual and reproductive health. “I don’t know what lies ahead in my future,” she told UNFPA, adding, “I wish to transfer my knowledge to the next generation.” © UNFPA Bangladesh
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Pandemic, conflict continue to upend life for women in Yemen

calendar_today29 June 2021

A reproductive health worker exits a tent in a displacement camp where she is providing services. UNFPA is the sole provider of life-saving reproductive health services in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen
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In Yemen’s man-made catastrophe, women and girls pay the heaviest price

calendar_today26 February 2021

Midwife Lena Al-Shurmani holds Abia's newborn baby shortly after delivery. Abia lost a lot of blood during childbirth. © UNFPA Yemen
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Young women face greatest threat from intimate partner violence, new UNFPA data dashboard shows

calendar_today02 December 2020

UNFPA's new data dashboard shows who are most vulnerable to intimate partner violence. Younger women face some of the greatest risks. © UNFPA Zimbabwe
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Launch event: Humanitarian Action 2021 Overview

calendar_today07 December 2020

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In Egypt, family planning unit works to ensure continuity of services amid pandemic

calendar_today20 November 2020

Doaa Ramadan says staff in the family planning unit have been diligent about applying precautionary measures to prevent COVID-19 transmission. © UNFPA Egypt/Roger Anis
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