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“You don’t see young women in some camps”: Harrowing reports of sexual violence and healthcare attacks in Sudan’s Aj Jazirah State

calendar_today19 November 2024

A UNFPA mobile health team member provides health services for displaced women and children in Gedaref, in eastern Sudan. More than 135,000 people have been displaced from Aj Jazirah state since October 20, following a wave of armed violence. Credit: UNFPA Sudan
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Responders to Nigeria’s flood crisis are themselves affected by crisis

calendar_today21 October 2024

The streets of Maiduguri, Nigeria, are flooded following torrential downpours. Flash floods have affected millions across multiple countries. © UNFPA Nigeria
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Humanitarian response enables safe childbirth amid Cameroon’s catastrophic floods

calendar_today14 October 2024

A couple affected by violence and flooding in Mada, Far North Cameroon, received a baby box kit provided by UNFPA. © UNFPA Cameroon/Samuel Sawalda
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“We say: Yes, you can”: Facing adversity and protecting women in the Peruvian jungle

calendar_today13 September 2024

Dafne Aquino travels long distances in a small boat to reach the most remote communities of indigenous women in the Peruvian Amazon. Credit: UNFPA Peru / Polo Santos
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“A race against time”: Djamila’s journey to hospital by canoe in flood-ravaged Cameroon

calendar_today11 September 2024

A pregnant woman is stranded by her house amid recent flooding in Cameroon’s Far North region. Credit: UNFPA Cameroon / Samuel Sawalda
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Three years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, meet the midwife who stayed, delivered – and saved lives

calendar_today21 August 2024

Midwife Mariza Ahmadi assisted Ms. Sughra to safely deliver her son, Farhad, at the Ahangaran family health house in the remote Bamyan Province, Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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New funding from the United States of America offers health and protection support for women and girls in Yemen

calendar_today27 July 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

calendar_today28 February 2023

Case workers visit clients, monitor their welfare and refer them to services when needed. © UNFPA Yemen
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“Men will no longer do what they want with them”: Indigenous women in Brazil say enough to gender-based violence

calendar_today10 January 2023

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
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New US funding supports reproductive health and protection services in Afghanistan

calendar_today26 September 2022

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