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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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Do you know your rights? Protections from gender-based violence amid displacement

calendar_today13 December 2024

In Haiti, this mother-of-six was raped while four months pregnant and fleeing from gang violence. © UNFPA Haiti/Wendy Desert
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Bertha Arzú: The Afro-indigenous activist who took on HIV in Honduras

calendar_today27 November 2024

Bertha Arzú walks along the beach in Tela, Honduras. © UNFPA Honduras
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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

calendar_today17 December 2024

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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12 November 2024

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A sisterhood of support: Improving maternity care in Ethiopia’s climate change-ravaged Somali region

calendar_today11 November 2024

A pregnant woman is attended to by a midwife at the Karamara Hospital in Ethiopia’s Somali region; every month health workers at the hospital safely assist some 600 deliveries. Credit: UNFPA Ethiopia
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Dec 2024

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Making the Invisible Visible: Why disability matters in violence against women and bodily autonomy

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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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Unpacking menopause myths on World Menopause Day

calendar_today17 October 2024

Health educator Malek Ababneh holds a group sessions on menopause and breast examinations at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan in 2016. © Alixandra Fazzina/NOOR/Picture This Productions
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Empowering young Tanzanians to choose their own paths

calendar_today08 October 2024

Melania Zambiliti (standing) alongside members of the Upendo group, who have gained entrepreneurial skills that provide them with an income, while also learning about sexual and reproductive health. Together, they have built a strong sense of unity and shared purpose. © UNFPA Tanzania/Ayubu Lulesu
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