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Ukraine crisis rooms, created for survivors of domestic violence, now house survivors of war

Iryna and her two children are sheltering in a crisis room. © UNFPA Ukraine

09 May 2022

Ukraine War: Supporting gender-based violence survivors

Published on: 04/05/2022

From a gender-based violence (GBV) shelter in Lviv, our Senior Emergency Coordinator Mustafa Elkanzi describes how UNFPA supports women and girls during the war in Ukraine.

Learn more about our work on the ground.

Resources

Ukraine Emergency Situation Report #8 – 29 April 2022

Resource date: Apr 2022

Author: UNFPA EECA

Updates

From Ukraine to Afghanistan, Iceland increases its support to humanitarian efforts to safeguard women and girls’ rights

03 May 2022

In 2022, Iceland increases its support to UNFPA to safeguard women and girls’ rights. In April, Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir met with UNFPA’s Executive Director, Dr. Natalia Kanem. © UNFPA

News

War in Ukraine shocks global food supply, putting lives at risk

A young mother and her baby are weighed before being examined for malnutrition at UNFPA-supported Marib General hospital in Yemen, a country that relies heavily on food imports. Skyrocketing food prices have increased the number of people in need of food assistance from 16.2 million in 2021 to 19 million people in 2022. © UN/Giles Clarke

27 April 2022

Resources

Ukraine Emergency Situation Report #7 – 20 April 2022

Resource date: Apr 2022

Author: UNFPA EECA

Press Release

Women and girls in Ukraine and neighboring countries require urgent support

19 April 2022

Snapshot: UNFPA’s response in Ukraine and the region

Ukraine War: Psychosocial support for refugees in Moldova

Published on: 18/04/2022

Natalia is a UNFPA-supported psychologist who is working with Ukrainian women and girls who fled into Moldova.

“The war trauma haunts them all. They feel lost and don’t know where to go next,” she says.

Learn how UNFPA is providing refugees from Ukraine with the support they need.

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A 72-year-old refugee from Ukraine tells of a life left torn apart by war

Valentina Ejova, a 72 year-old refugee from Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, looks through photos of a former life as she transits through the Moldexpo temporary refugee placement centre in Chișinău, in the Republic of Moldova © UNFPA Moldova/Adriana Bîzgu

11 April 2022

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Ukrainian refugees build new lives far from home

Ivanna Povchenuik (center) left her home in Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine with her two children for the Polish border, from where they continued to Belgium, a journey that took 35 hours. © Martin Thaulow

05 April 2022

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