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A beacon of hope: How UNFPA safe rooms are transforming lives in Tajikistan

RUDAKI, Tajikistan – At a maternity house in Tajikistan’s western Rudaki district, women and girls can seek some unexpected, yet sorely needed, extra services. Thanks to an initiative by UNFPA, the United Nations sexual…

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

MARIB/TAIZZ, Yemen – At just 26 years old, Abeer has already lived through nearly a decade of war in Yemen. She fled her home in Dhamar in 2016, walking and hitchhiking for eight hours with her husband and young…

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Three global trends on a collision course… with women and girls at the crossroads

UNITED NATIONS, New York – As 2024 draws to a close, the world is grappling with ever-intensifying crises. UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has just launched a $1.4 billion humanitarian…

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Hope amid despair: A Gaza mother’s struggle to be with her baby

GAZA STRIP, Occupied Palestinian Territory – “My pregnancy during the war was very difficult,” 28-year-old Nadia* told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. “I was really afraid for the baby.”

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Tanzanian women highlight the path from bodily autonomy to sustainable development

ZANZIBAR, United Republic of Tanzania – “When I learned about family planning, I felt like I had control over my life,” said Mwanaisha Rajabu, a 28-year-old mother of three living in Fuoni, a village on the Unguja…

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Bertha Arzú: The Afro-indigenous activist who took on HIV in Honduras

TELA, Honduras – In the early 2000s, even as the AIDS epidemic began to wane, one country in Central America remained disproportionately endangered by the virus: Honduras. At the time, more than half of all cases in…

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Men in detention face sexual torture amid war in Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine – In the early hours of the morning, at a location in Ukraine not far from the front line of the war, Antonina* found herself staring at a disturbing message on her phone. It was a video recording of her…

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Nadia’s song of resilience: Raising her voice amid crisis and displacement

UNITED NATIONS, New York – “I've loved singing since I was a child,” 24-year-old Nadia told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. “It is my way of expressing my feelings and thoughts.”

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“Where are we supposed to go?”: Women and girls in northern Gaza endure displacement, hunger and healthcare under attack

NORTH GAZA, Occupied Palestinian Territory – Adla was forced from her home in Jabalia, in North Gaza, after it was demolished by Israeli forces. “We had no mattress, no food, no clothes – nothing. We fled the airstrikes…

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