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“The pain and loss were overwhelming”: As gender-based violence rises in Gaza, case workers tell of harrowing conditions

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Women and girls seek support at a UNFPA-supported safe space for women and girls, which offers support and services from a tent set up outside a school building that currently houses displaced people in Gaza city. © UNFPA Palestine/Yasmeen Sous

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Gender equality as a path to empowerment for refugee women and survivors of sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Just under half of all women in Bosnia and Herzegovina report experiencing some form of abuse – including intimate partner violence, stalking and sexual harassment – since age 15. © UNFPA Bosnia and Herzegovina / Imrana Kapetanovic

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“A point of no return”: An urgent call to support women and girls in Haiti

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With 1.3 million people displaced, many communities facing catastrophic hunger and sexual violence and the health system all but collapsed, the crisis gripping Haiti has been described as at risk of “reaching a point of no return.” © UNHCR/Juan Pablo Terminello

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“As widespread as guns and bullets”: Sexual violence used to terrorize Sudan’s women and girls

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More than 12 million people in Sudan are at risk of gender-based violence, with frontline responders and survivors reporting alarming rates of rape, abuse, coercion and child marriage © UNFPA Sudan

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As famine looms in Gaza, pregnant women and newborns face life-threatening health risks

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Israel’s catastrophic aid blockade on Gaza has gone on for over two months, in which all supplies – including food, medicine, shelter and fuel – have been cut off. ©UNFPA Palestine/Media Clinic

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The waiting game: How a maternity home in Namibia is offering women and newborns a better chance at surviving – and thriving

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The maternity waiting home in the Kunene region offers a place for up to 40 women to stay near the hospital, with skilled midwives on hand to offer care and advice, as well as a shared kitchen, dining room and bedrooms.© UNFPA Namibia

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From natural process to nightmare: How Gaza’s women and girls cope with their periods in a war zone

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Women and young girls in a destroyed displacement camp in Gaza. ©UNFPA Palestine/Media Clinic

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Don’t let the lights go out: UNFPA urges support for women and girls in the world’s most neglected crises

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A woman and her baby sit in a camp for displaced people in the Dayniile district of Mogadishu, Somalia. © UNFPA Somalia / Usame Nur Hussein

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Front-line midwives: Three reasons to support these humanitarian health workers amid a global funding crisis

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In the delivery room of the Kyeshero Hospital in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a team of midwives assist a displaced woman who has just given birth. © UNFPA DRC / Jonas Yunus DRC

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The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn’t know about global fertility rates

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In this year’s flagship State of World Population report, UNFPA surveyed some 14,000 people across 14 countries, and found that around one in five said they won’t be able to have the number of children they would like. © Stina Persson

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“The pain and loss were overwhelming”: As gender-based violence rises in Gaza, case workers tell of harrowing conditions

Gender equality as a path to empowerment for refugee women and survivors of sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina

“A point of no return”: An urgent call to support women and girls in Haiti

“As widespread as guns and bullets”: Sexual violence used to terrorize Sudan’s women and girls

As famine looms in Gaza, pregnant women and newborns face life-threatening health risks

The waiting game: How a maternity home in Namibia is offering women and newborns a better chance at surviving – and thriving

From natural process to nightmare: How Gaza’s women and girls cope with their periods in a war zone

Don’t let the lights go out: UNFPA urges support for women and girls in the world’s most neglected crises

Front-line midwives: Three reasons to support these humanitarian health workers amid a global funding crisis

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