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Sexual violence and conflict in Sudan: A war on the bodies of women and girls

Sudan is in the grips of a humanitarian catastrophe. Up to 12 million people have fled their homes, 2 million of them to unstable neighbouring countries, and famine is looming in multiple areas. © UNFPA Sudan

18 June 2024

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How a teenage mother in Cameroon triumphed over child marriage and sexual violence amid conflict

UNFPA has deployed 34 midwives and a team of social workers offering life-saving health care and protection services to vulnerable women and girls in remote and hard-to-reach areas of the Far North Region in Cameroon. © UNFPA Cameroon/Samuel Sawalda

07 June 2024

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“Haïti must rise from her ashes”: Health workers on the front lines of a spiralling crisis

A UNFPA-supported mobile health team visits a displacement site near Haïti’s capital Port-au-Prince. © FAHDRIS/Richy Mix

28 March 2024

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01 September 2023

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“Sometimes she was desperate”: How survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are healing with the help of UNFPA’s frontline workers

Anny* and her daughter were raped at gunpoint while collecting firewood near the Bulengo camp for internally displaced people, where they are taking shelter from the conflict in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA DRC/Junior Mayindu

18 August 2023

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Sexual violence stalks women and girls fleeing Sudan for South Sudan

Every day at the Bulukat transit centre, UNFPA holds sessions on the threat of gender-based violence. Some 85 people attended this one, where they also learned about the services and support available to survivors. © UNFPA Sudan

24 July 2023

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“A fight against oblivion”: How Colombia empowers communities to combat conflict-related sexual violence

UNFPA deploys mobile response teams to communities affected by conflict and crisis. © UNFPA Colombia

20 June 2023

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“I know how to listen”: Midwives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo use groundbreaking new birth model to care for pregnant survivors of sexual violence

Midwife Aimée Nzimire assists labouring mother Valerine Mwamini. Though the Panzi hospital's new "Transforming Birth" model is designed to serve survivors of gender-based violence, Ms. Mwamini is not herself a GBV survivor. © UNFPA Democratic Republic of the Congo/Lisa Thanner

05 April 2023

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Reclaiming hope and justice for survivors of sexual violence during drought and hunger crisis in Somalia

A nurse walks through an settlement camp for displaced people in Garowe, Puntland, speaking to women as part of an initiative to convince mothers to stop practising female genital mutilation on their daughters. © UNFPA Somalia/Tobin Jones

08 November 2022

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Forced into early motherhood, a child rape survivor in the Comoros fights stigma to finish school

Mariama was raped at a neighbour’s home when she was just 13 years old and forced into early motherhood. The Comoros already has high rates of gender-based violence, but many more women and girls don’t report being assaulted or abused for fear of social stigma, discrimination and even financial destitution. © UNFPA Comoros/Melvis Kimbi

26 September 2022

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