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5 lessons from 2024 to ensure sexual and reproductive rights for all in 2025

calendar_today26 December 2024

A group of young people at the UNFPA-supported Kibirizi youth space in Rwanda’s Rubengera sector after completing a course on comprehensive sexuality education. ©UNFPA ESARO/Jadwiga Figula
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Women deliver babies on the road and under fire as catastrophe grips Sudan’s Aj Jazirah State

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As violence intensifies across southeast Sudan, hundreds of thousands of people have fled Aj Jazirah State for neighbouring Gedaref State, taking refuge in cramped, makeshift camps. Credit: © UNFPA Sudan
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27 November 2024

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“I came to help my sisters”: As Chad grapples with record floods and a refugee crisis, midwives are bridging the divide

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A woman collects clean drinking water in a camp sheltering more than 4,000 displaced people after the Chari River flooded in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, in October 2024. Credit: © UNFPA Chad / Karel Prinsloo
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An expectant mother hit by floods in northern Nigeria shares her story

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An expectant mother hit by floods in northern Nigeria shares her story

An expectant mother hit by floods in northern Nigeria shares her story

“When the floods hit us, it was two weeks before my expected delivery date.”

Fatima, one of our heroic community mobilizers in Nigeria, is among the many expectant mothers affected by the recent flooding in the northern part of the country.

See her story and how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding to the crisis.  

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

calendar_today05 December 2024

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
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In the West Bank, mobile healthcare teams are a lifeline amid crisis

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Duaa Adwa has brought her son to the mobile healthcare team during their visit to Bethlehem’s Al Uqban Village. During past visits, the team had been unable to dispense fever medicine for Ms. Adwa’s son because of supply shortages. © UNFPA/Lisa Sabella
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31 October 2024

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Mass displacement of pregnant women requires mobilization of maternal health services in Lebanon, Syria

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Soumaia was displaced from Lebanon while five months pregnant. She experienced a stillbirth after finding shelter in Syria. © UNFPA Syria/Alaa Ghorra
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Attacked, understaffed, underfunded: Healthcare shortages endanger pregnant women in north-west Syria

calendar_today23 October 2024

Medical workers perform an operation at Idlib Maternity Hospital. © UNFPA/ Abdul Razzaq Zakzouq
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