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Three global trends on a collision course… with women and girls at the crossroads

In the Bakasi displacement camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, community mobilizers speak to flood survivors about how to receive support for gender-based violence, which is known to increase in crisis settings. © UNFPA Nigeria/Dawali David Exodus

05 December 2024

A mother under siege in Gaza speaks

Published on: 23/10/2023

Children, pregnant women and the elderly remain the most vulnerable in #Gaza as they seek refuge from relentless bombardment.

Hear from a mother under siege about her desperate struggle to care for her 9-month-old son, and see here how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is taking action to support her and other women in Palestine.

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Rescued from the earthquake in Morocco, midwife Maria delivers babies and saves lives as catastrophe unfolds around her

The Moroccan Government's search and rescue operations in one of the villages worst affected by the earthquake that struck Morocco on the night of 8 September. © Davide Bonaldo/Sipa USA

25 September 2023

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Taliban banning women from higher education and from working with humanitarian organizations

26 December 2022

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Sri Lanka’s once robust health system nears collapse amid crisis – and pregnant women pay the price

Some 215,000 women are currently pregnant in Sri Lanka and 145,000 will give birth in the next six months. File image from 2019. © UNFPA Sri Lanka/Ruvin De Silva

08 August 2022

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UNFPA Humanitarian Thematic Fund 2021 Annual Report

Number of pages: 23

Publication date: 30 Jun 2022

Publisher: UNFPA

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Hope on wheels: Emergency maternal health units reach farthest corners of the Philippines

The fishing village of Saint Bernard, in the Southern Leyte Province of the Philippines, saw widepsread destruction from Super Typhoon Rai in December 2021, with hundreds of thousands displaced and many homes obliterated by the storm. © UNFPA/Ezra Acayan

19 April 2022

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More than $250 million needed to sustain humanitarian response for women and girls in Afghanistan

Internally displaced persons on their way to seek free medical services from a mobile health team in Kandahar. From August to December 2021, UNFPA-supported mobile health teams reached more than 33,000 people with sexual and reproductive health services. © UNFPA Afghanistan

17 March 2022

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Crisis after the storm: needs soar for women and girls in typhoon-ravaged Philippines

A UNFPA staff member walks to a damaged health centre in Siargao Island, Surigao Del Norte on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines ©UNFPA Philippines

03 February 2022

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Women refugees bear the brunt of Ethiopia’s forgotten crisis in Gambella

19 January 2022

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