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Iraq centre brings specialized care to gender violence survivors

Case workers finish a meeting at the survivors' centre in Dohuk. The facility provides a full range of support services for survivors of gender-based violence. © UNFPA Iraq/Turchenkova
  • 18 November 2016
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Return of Chibok girls highlights needs of women and girls

Women and girls are at risk in Boko Haram-affected areas. © OCHA/Ó. Fagan
  • 10 November 2016
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Conflict, poverty, poor health conditions a deadly mix for mothers in South Sudan

Midwife Justine Mangwi was not able to save the newborn's mother. © UNFPA South Sudan
  • 08 November 2016
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Risks to women and girls soar in hurricane-slammed Haiti

Urgent action is required to protect the lives of thousands of women and girls. © UNFPA/Eddie Wright
  • 04 November 2016
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Women’s health needs critical as battle for Mosul intensifies

A displaced family walks under a sky blackened by burning oil wells in Qayyarah, south of Mosul. Nineteen oil wells were set ablaze as ISIL retreated from the area. © OCHA/ Themba Linden
  • 03 November 2016
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With high child marriage rates among Syrian refugees, one girl takes a stand

Raneem Abras, 16, a Syrian refugee living in Lebanon, advocates against child marriage. © UNFPA Lebanon/Sima Diab
  • 02 November 2016
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Violence against women escalates under Yemen's brutal conflict

Violence against women was widespread even before the current conflict, but experts say abuses are becoming even more commonplace. A women's shelter in a port city in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen
  • 31 October 2016
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Rural Haiti slammed by Hurricane Matthew

Published on: 28/10/2016

Rural Haiti is hard to reach. Women and girls there need reproductive health care. Without urgent action, maternal deaths will rise, and vulnerability to sexual violence will increase. 

What happens when a hurricane hits a hospital

Published on: 28/10/2016

See what happens when a hurricane hits a hospital. Beaumont Hospital, in Haiti, was devastated by Hurricane Matthew.

Some 13,000 women will give birth in hurricane-affected areas in the next three months. Thousands of them will experience complications. Without urgent action, maternal death rates will rise.

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Health facilities devastated in Hurricane Matthew: “I couldn’t have left the women there to die”

Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on 4 October, unleashing the greatest devastation the country has seen since the 2010 earthquake. © UNFPA/Eddie Wright
  • 25 October 2016
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