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

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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

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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

09 October 2024

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Despite steep funding cuts, heroic teacher determined to keep girls in school and out of child marriage in Yemen

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

Japan continues to prioritize the most vulnerable women and girls in humanitarian settings

UNFPA mobile clinic helps women give birth safely during crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Funding from the Government of Japan safeguards women’s and girls’ health and needs in crises

UNFPA midwives on call to ensure safe births in Afghanistan’s most remote villages

Core resources support survivors of gender-based violence in the Comoros

Japan and UNFPA partner to support maternal health in Palestine

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