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New funding from the United States of America offers health and protection support for women and girls in Yemen

27 Jul 2023

A new $23.4 million contribution from USAID will provide emergency relief and life-saving reproductive health and protection services to 1.3 million people in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen

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Violence plagues women and girls amid Yemen’s relentless conflict

Case workers visit clients, monitor their welfare and refer them to services when needed. © UNFPA Yemen

28 February 2023

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“Men will no longer do what they want with them”: Indigenous women in Brazil say enough to gender-based violence

Lutana Ribeiro is the only female chief of Parque das Tribos, an indigenous neighbourhood in Manaus, the capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state. ©UNFPA Brazil/Isabela Martel

10 January 2023

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UNFPA midwives on call to ensure safe births in Afghanistan’s most remote villages

Midwife Suhila Rasuli on her way to visit a pregnant woman in a remote area of Nimroz province, Afghanistan. © Naqibullah Rahimi/MOVE Afghanistan

16 March 2023

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In Sudan, a UNFPA hospital helps women give birth safely despite flooding crisis

Health workers at the UNFPA Tunaydbah field hospital in Sudan’s eastern Gedaraf state provide critical maternal health care amid floods, conflict and an ongoing refugee crisis. © UNFPA Sudan

17 January 2023

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Belgium, Germany and Sweden join forces with UNFPA and UNICEF to eliminate female genital mutilation

28 Dec 2022

A group of girls rescued from female genital mutilation and early marriage play hand-clapping games in their dormitories at Morpus primary school in Ortum, West Pokot, Kenya on November 24, 2020. Through the support of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme, the Morpus primary and boarding school has been helping young girls to escape and recover from female genital mutilation and early marriages since 2003, providing education and accommodation. © UNFPA Kenya/Luis Tato

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New US funding supports reproductive health and protection services in Afghanistan

26 Sep 2022

(Bamyan) Sadbarg Village Family Health House. © UNFPA Afghanistan

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USAID allocates US$12.4 million to support access to lifesaving reproductive health and protection services for women and girls in Ukraine

19 Jul 2022

A UNFPA psychologist from one of the psychosocial mobile teams provides support to an evacuee in Mariupol. © UNFPA Ukraine

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The US contributes $3.4m to support UNFPA’s response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis

25 Mar 2022

Since the war broke out on 24 February, more than 10 million people have been forced to leave their homes, either internally displaced or to neighbouring countries. Most of the refugees are women with children, and older persons. ©UNFPA Moldova

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The United States of America stands to uplift the lives of millions of women and girls, becoming a top UNFPA donor

22 Dec 2021

The US is back as a major partner of UNFPA in 2021.

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