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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

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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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09 December 2024

Statement

Heeding the voices of persons with disabilities for the benefit of all

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International Day of Persons With Disabilities 2024

calendar_today03 December 2024

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Human Rights Day 2024

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12 November 2024

Updates

Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health: Considerations for the ICPD Agenda

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Press release

A warming planet, a world unraveling: Women and girls pay the price on the frontlines of the climate crisis, new UNFPA analysis finds

calendar_today19 November 2024

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News

A sisterhood of support: Improving maternity care in Ethiopia’s climate change-ravaged Somali region

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A pregnant woman is attended to by a midwife at the Karamara Hospital in Ethiopia’s Somali region; every month health workers at the hospital safely assist some 600 deliveries. Credit: UNFPA Ethiopia
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News

What women and girls need most as climate disasters and displacement wreak havoc across the world

calendar_today18 November 2024

Georgette and her baby, Freddy, wait to be seen at the Maroalakely health centre, where UNFPA staff also helped register the baby for a birth certificate. © UNFPA Madagascar/Jean Martin
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