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A safe space to turn: Young women in Yemen support each other to counter digital gender-based violence

calendar_today06 December 2024

Since the start of 2024, nearly 250,000 people in Yemen have received assistance through a UNFPA-supported hotline and in person at mental health centres. Credit: UNFPA Yemen / Ahmed Al Majidi
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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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In Egypt, men and boys stand firm against female genital mutilation

calendar_today02 January 2025

Zanaty El-Sawy first decided to research the topic of female genital mutilation to protect his two daughters. © UNFPA Egypt/Roger Anis
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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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Three global trends on a collision course… with women and girls at the crossroads

calendar_today05 December 2024

In the Bakasi displacement camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, community mobilizers speak to flood survivors about how to receive support for gender-based violence, which is known to increase in crisis settings. © UNFPA Nigeria/Dawali David Exodus
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World AIDS Day

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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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