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Women refugees bear the brunt of Ethiopia’s forgotten crisis in Gambella

calendar_today19 January 2022

The maternity delivery room at the Jewi Refugee Camp, Gambella © UNFPA Ethiopia/ Paula Seijo
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Diamonds are scarce – sexual and reproductive health information shouldn’t be

calendar_today14 December 2021

Nsenga Malu has had nine children since her marriage at age 15. She was not given any information about family planning until her most recent child was born. © UNFPA DRC
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Rising from the ashes: A Yemen family's new home

calendar_today13 September 2021

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In July 2021, the Al-Ashur family tent burned down in the Om Elhadage internally displaced persons camp in Marib, home to 150 people. The Al-Ashurs – a grandfather, two parents and 7 children – had come to the camp when fighting near their home close to the front lines intensified, forcing them to leave. The family slept in the open air until a UNFPA-led Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) team, while distributing emergency relief, volunteered to help rebuild the family’s temporary home, completing it in 48 hours.

Above, the family patriarch and his granddaughter search for anything they can salvage among the ashes of what used to be their home. They were able to find items for cooking but not much else, losing all their clothes and bedding they had brought when they fled to the camp. © UNFPA Yemen

A RRM team began to lend a hand in rebuilding the family’s tent by erecting the bones of the home. The RRM provides assistance to the newly displaced, distributing women’s dignity kits from the UNFPA, food from the World Food Programme and family hygiene kits from UNICEF, within 72 hours from the onset of displacement. The RRM is funded by the European Union Humanitarian Aid, Central Emergency Response Fund and Yemen Humanitarian Fund.© UNFPA Yemen

After the tent took two days to complete, RRM team members brought basic necessities to the family as well as to other families in the camp. UNFPA also supports the camp with mobile outreach teams consisting of a doctor, midwife, nurse, pharmacist, medical assistant and psychologist that provide reproductive health services including antenatal and postnatal care and family planning, psychosocial counselling and other gender-based violence support services. © UNFPA Yemen

 

Said Al-Ashur and one of his granddaughters, Kholoud, 11, carry supplies back to their new home. Children in the camp are currently not attending school and mostly help with household chores.© UNFPA Yemen

Sisters (from left) Kholoud, 11, and Asma, 13, tend to cooking with pots provided in the RRM relief package. Girls are often responsible for fetching water and firewood for cooking fuel. © UNFPA Yemen

 

In Om Elhadage camp, UNFPA distributed relief boxes to the 25 families living there. Since January 2021, the RRM has provided emergency relief to nearly 30,000 people in Marib Governorate, a hotspot of intense fighting. In addition, UNFPA has reached nearly 100,000 people with reproductive health and gender-based violence services there. © UNFPA Yemen

 

The family in the doorway of their new home, thatched with straw. © UNFPA Yemen

After a long day helping rebuild her family’s tent, Faten, 10, combs her hair with items from the RRM kit. Tonight will be the first night in three weeks she once again has a home to call her own. © UNFPA Yemen

Mother, Umm Asmaa, prepares dinner for her family. An estimated 73 per cent of the more than 4 million people displaced in Yemen are women and children. © UNFPA Yemen

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Floods, landslides ravage Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

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<p>Torrential monsoon rains on July 26 and 27 flooded Rohingya camps in Cox&#39;s Bazar, Bangladesh, killing six, displacing more than 13,000 and destroying nearly 4,000 shelters. UNFPA is on the ground, supporting a field hospital for new mothers and their babies, providing sexual and reproductive health and rights services and distributing basic hygiene supplies.&nbsp;&copy; UNFPA Bangladesh/Nelson Halder</p>

<p>HOPE Field Hospital in Camp 4, the only comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care and sexual and reproductive health and rights facility in the Rohingya camps, was hit hard. Flooding&nbsp;damaged medicine supplies, patient records,&nbsp;and medical equipment in the neonatal ward (above) so newborns needing care were evacuated&nbsp;to a partner facility. Beds were waterlogged, and the water filtration and drainage system was compromised when the fuel drum for the generator was destroyed. UNFPA is supporting the facility with health personnel, supplies and resources to help keep it operational. &copy;UNFPA Bangladesh/Fahima Tajrin</p>

<p>Midwives are still delivering babies at HOPE Field Hospital even as cleanup efforts are underway in affected parts of the hospital. With roads washed away, some patients and providers cannot reach a health facility. &copy;UNFPA Bangladesh/Fahima Tajrin</p>

<p>A temporary tent installed in Camp 9 provides sexual and reproductive health and rights services, including family planning and gender-based violence protection,&nbsp;to vulnerable women and girls. There are 27 other women-friendly spaces providing a range of support, from counselling&nbsp;to dignity kits to midwifery services. &copy; UNFPA Bangladesh/Fahima Tajrin</p>

<p>Standing water is a boon for breeding mosquitoes, exacerbating&nbsp;mosquito-borne illnesses. HOPE Field Hospital staff working in dirty water are experiencing skin irritations. &copy; UNFPA Bangladesh/Fahima Tajrin&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>Referral hub teams, supported by UNFPA, relocated&nbsp;patients to nearby facilities with emergency transport and referral services.&nbsp;&copy; International Rescue Committee</p>

<p>Learning centres run by UNFPA partners housed displaced households, including this one in Camp 1E that sheltered 14 people. The Gender-Based Violence Sub-Sector Coordination&nbsp;conducts field visits to observe safety concerns, including&nbsp;gender-based violence risks.&nbsp;&copy; UNFPA/Sofia Canovas</p>

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Pandemic, conflict continue to upend life for women in Yemen

calendar_today29 June 2021

A reproductive health worker exits a tent in a displacement camp where she is providing services. UNFPA is the sole provider of life-saving reproductive health services in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen
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As Afghanistan grapples with surge in COVID-19 cases, one midwife shares her strength

calendar_today23 June 2021

Mastura Zia provides maternal health services to Afghan returnees, many of them deported from neighbouring Iran. © Zaeem Abdul Rahman/UNFPA Afghanistan
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Safe spaces in Colombia offer respite to Venezuelan migrants

calendar_today25 February 2021

Women at a safe space in Saravena, Arauca, one of 19 in Colombia that serve Venezuelan migrants who are survivors of gender-based violence. © UNFPA Colombia
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Updates

United States pledges $32.5 million to uplift women and girls around the world

calendar_today29 January 2021

In 2016, Rima was the 5000th baby born at a UNFPA-supported clinic for refugees in Jordan. © UNFPA Jordan
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After tragedy, refugee family finds safety and community in Türkiye

calendar_today19 June 2020

Outreach workers visit refugee communities to help improve access to social services among the most vulnerable. © UNFPA Türkiye/Utku Tonguç Topal
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May 2019

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Resources

Measuring disability, migration, and marriage registration - recommended questions for inclusion in censuses

This technical brief provides guidance on the recommended questions for inclusion in censuses in order to improve the quality and comparability of data on disability and international migration. It also encourages the inclusion of questions on age at first marriage, type of marriage, and registration status of the marriage in the 2020 round of census.