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Eight Years On: Rohingya Women and Girls Need the World’s Support More Than Ever

calendar_today25 August 2025

In the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, this young woman longs for safety, dignity and a future of opportunity. Without urgent funding, thousands like her risk losing the only safe spaces that protect and empower them. @UNFPA Bangladesh/Peter Rozario
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Despite steep funding cuts, heroic teacher determined to keep girls in school and out of child marriage in Yemen

calendar_today21 April 2025

Some 1.5 million girls in Yemen are not in school, which blights their future learning and employment opportunities and exposes them to higher risks of child marriage. ©YWU
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09 October 2024

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Japan contributes US$2.4 million to strengthen lifesaving services for Yemeni women and girls

calendar_today26 July 2024

New funding from Japan will provide more than 120,000 vulnerable women and girls with access to life-saving reproductive health and protection services in Yemen.
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Japan continues to prioritize the most vulnerable women and girls in humanitarian settings

calendar_today31 January 2024

Setyelem, 29, suffered from the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. She received care thanks to UNFPA, with funding from the Government of Japan. © UNFPA Ethiopia
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UNFPA mobile clinic helps women give birth safely during crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

calendar_today08 May 2023

Midwives working in UNFPA’s mobile clinic attend to a pregnant woman who was forced to flee her home for a temporary displacement camp in Rusayo, North Kivu province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA/Junior Mayindu
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Funding from the Government of Japan safeguards women’s and girls’ health and needs in crises

calendar_today11 April 2023

Joana and her daughter were displaced from the conflict in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. They now visit a UNFPA-supported women-friendly space, funded by the Government of Japan and the Central Emergency Response Funds. © UNFPA Mozambique/Mbuto Machili
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UNFPA midwives on call to ensure safe births in Afghanistan’s most remote villages

calendar_today16 March 2023

Midwife Suhila Rasuli on her way to visit a pregnant woman in a remote area of Nimroz province, Afghanistan. © Naqibullah Rahimi/MOVE Afghanistan
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Core resources support survivors of gender-based violence in the Comoros

calendar_today19 January 2023

Mariama* confides in a social worker: She was raped at a neighbour’s home when she was just 13 years old and forced into early motherhood. The Comoros already has high rates of gender-based violence, but many more women and girls don’t report being assaulted or abused for fear of social stigma, discrimination and even financial destitution. © UNFPA Comoros/Melvis Kimbi
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Japan and UNFPA partner to support maternal health in Palestine

calendar_today30 June 2022

UNFPA and Japan join forces to improve maternal health in Palestine and provide assistance to women in need. © UNFPA Palestine
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