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Risks to women and girls soar in hurricane-slammed Haiti

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

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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
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With high child marriage rates among Syrian refugees, one girl takes a stand

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

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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
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Rural Haiti slammed by Hurricane Matthew

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Rural Haiti slammed by Hurricane Matthew

Rural Haiti slammed by Hurricane Matthew

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. 

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What happens when a hurricane hits a hospital

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What happens when a hurricane hits a hospital

What happens when a hurricane hits a hospital

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”

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Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on 4 October, unleashing the greatest devastation the country has seen since the 2010 earthquake. © UNFPA/Eddie Wright
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Giving girls a voice in Zika-affected communities

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Barbara, Jocelly and Maria Eduarda after attending a reproductive health seminar in Goiana, Brazil. © UNFPA Brazil/Tatiana Almeida
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Sep 2016

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UNFPA Regional Syria Response Hub

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Regional Situation Report for Syria Crisis #49 1-30 September 2016

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Sep 2016

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UNFPA Yemen

Resources

UNFPA Response in Yemen Monthly Situation Report #08 – September 2016

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