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From midwife to MP - Advancing the rights of women in the Comoros

MP Hadjira Oumouri attends the Comorian marathon on International Women’s Day. Her shirt says, "I am more than a mother. I am also a woman with ambition." © UNFPA Comoros/Nasser Youssouf
  • 04 April 2018
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  • Perilous conditions for pregnant women displaced in northern Syria

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Perilous conditions for pregnant women displaced in northern Syria

A UNFPA-supported mobile team performs an ultrasound for a pregnant woman displaced from Afrin. © UNFPA Syria/Sufian Abdulmouty
  • 19 March 2018
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  • Displaced by crisis, South Sudan midwifery students focus on saving mothers

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Displaced by crisis, South Sudan midwifery students focus on saving mothers

Nyomon Lilian attends to a mother and her newborn at the Juba Teaching Hospital. © UNFPA South Sudan
  • 09 February 2018
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  • In Pakistan, empowering midwives to empower women

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In Pakistan, empowering midwives to empower women

Midwives attend to clients in Sindh Province. Midwifery training programmes are empowering women and saving lives. © UNFPA Pakistan
  • 20 November 2017
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  • For most vulnerable Nigerian women, high rates of traumatic birth injury

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For most vulnerable Nigerian women, high rates of traumatic birth injury

Women and girls are waiting for a fistula repair at Maiduguri’s State Specialist Hospital © Anne Wittenberg/UNFPA
  • 16 November 2017
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  • No place too far: Midwives deployed to far-flung villages in Myanmar

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No place too far: Midwives deployed to far-flung villages in Myanmar

Midwife Daw Aye Myint visits the home of a new mother for a postpartum check-up in the remote region of Magway. © UNFPA Myanmar
  • 29 July 2016
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  • Stay and deliver: Saving lives under gunfire in Juba

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Stay and deliver: Saving lives under gunfire in Juba

A mother and baby in Bentiu, South Sudan, in 2015. When violence erupted days before the fifth anniversary of South Sudan's independence, heroic midwives stood their ground to save lives. © UNFPA/Amadou Baraze Elh Nakaka
  • 26 July 2016
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  • Changing the perspective: Fighting to end female genital mutilation in Upper Egypt

Changing the perspective: Fighting to end female genital mutilation in Upper Egypt

18 July 2016

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  • Maternal death rate plunges in Lao People's Democratic Republic

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Maternal death rate plunges in Lao People's Democratic Republic

Agnod counsels villagers on family planning. Efforts like Agnod's have helped the country lower its maternal death rate significantly. © UNFPA/Matthew Taylor
  • 13 July 2016
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  • Getting help to nomad moms on the move in West Darfur

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Getting help to nomad moms on the move in West Darfur

Zahra Zakaria was in labour for three days in a tent in West Darfur. A Caesarean section saved her and her son. © UNFPA
  • 12 July 2016
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