EN ES FR AR

Donate

Events

International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict 2024

calendar_today19 June 2024

location_onGlobal

International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict 2024 — UNFPA DRC/Junior Mayindu

News

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

calendar_today18 June 2024

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

Donate

News

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

calendar_today07 June 2024

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

News

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

calendar_today28 March 2024

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

News story

Five things you need to know about consent

calendar_today01 September 2023

News

“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

calendar_today18 August 2023

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

News

Sexual violence stalks women and girls fleeing Sudan for South Sudan

calendar_today24 July 2023

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

News

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

calendar_today20 June 2023

News

“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

calendar_today05 April 2023

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

News

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

calendar_today08 November 2022

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

Subscribe to Sexual Violence

Leaders and Advocates

Funding and impact

International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict 2024

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

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

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

Five things you need to know about consent

“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

Sexual violence stalks women and girls fleeing Sudan for South Sudan

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

“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

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

International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict 2024

Related Content

Related topics

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

Related Content

Related topics

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

Related Content

Related topics

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

Related Content

Related topics

Five things you need to know about consent

Related Content

“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

Related Content

Sexual violence stalks women and girls fleeing Sudan for South Sudan

Related Content

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

Related Content

“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

Related Content

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

Related Content

Related topics