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Sexual violence in conflict: Overlooked, under-reported and in danger of being “normalized”

Accompanied by a mobile medical team, a UNFPA health care worker carries out regular visits to Homs, Syria. © UNFPA Syria
  • 19 June 2022
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#ThisIsNotNormal

Published on: 19/06/2023

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5 things to know about motherhood

Mother’s Day is celebrated around the world throughout the year. In Somalia, above, the day falls in March. © Tobin Jones for UNFPA
  • 03 May 2022
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Women and girls in South Sudan battle mounting sexual violence amid conflict and climate crises

Women return from collecting firewood in South Sudan's Unity State, which has seen alarming levels of gender-based violence amid mounting conflict and spiralling climate catastrophes. ©UNFPA South Sudan
  • 20 April 2022
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Fighting for justice against gender-based violence in Madagascar

Satiana, 8, holds her grandmother's hand before the trial of her rapist at the Ambovombe Court in Madagascar. ©UNFPA Madagascar/Melvis Kimbi
  • 17 January 2022
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Urgent funding needed to assist survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Tigray

Selam (name changed) holds a message in Tigrinya during an exercise at the safe house. Her note says, in English, "relief". © UNFPA Ethiopia/Paula Seijo
  • 27 May 2021
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Women face "unspeakable" sexual violence in South Sudan

UNFPA is providing post-rape treatment kits and other essential health supplies in South Sudan. Sexual violence has been widespread since hostilities erupted last month. © UNFPA/Tim McKulka
  • 05 August 2016
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Healing the Wounds of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Published on: 04/12/2010

The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina may have ended 15 years ago, but for some 20,000 women, the legacy of wartime rape lives on. Women of all ethnic groups are still trying to cope with the psychological effects of violence perpetrated against them.

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Global summit urges to end sexual violence in conflict

Women who have endured gender-based violence receive counselling and other forms of support in a displacement camp in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo credit: OCHA/Gemma Cortes
  • 10 June 2014
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