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Child marriage, female genital mutilation urgent priorities as pandemic threatens progress

Tens of millions of girls are watching their girlhoods end, not with storybook romance but with harmful rites of passage such as child marriage and female genital mutilation.

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The diplomatic community lends a hand to help women’s shelters in Bosnia and Herzegovina

As in many parts of the world, the eight women’s shelters across the country saw rising numbers of survivors of violence seeking refuge during the pandemic.

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2020 Year in Review: Top 5 stories affecting women and girls

It comes as no surprise that Merriam-Webster declared “pandemic” the word of the year. The biggest stories all stemmed from one story: COVID-19, a disease that affected the respiratory system, was transmitted by breath…

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Mongolian women get help to escape violence even amid pandemic

When Dulam* first sought help from a one-stop service centre in northern Mongolia, she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

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After years of conflict, Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, a UNFPA 2021 appeal shows

A new Humanitarian Action Overview report released by UNFPA names Yemen as the country where the needs of women and girls in humanitarian emergencies are greatest.

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Pandemic, stigma threaten to leave persons with disabilities behind, consultations show

As the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelms health systems, shutters businesses and triggers a spike in gender-based violence, persons with disabilities face particularly acute challenges.

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Young women face greatest threat from intimate partner violence, new UNFPA data dashboard shows

A new data dashboard released by UNFPA yesterday shows that young women face the greatest risk of intimate partner violence. Yet partner violence is rampant around the world, and older women are not immune, the new tool…

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Groups already vulnerable to HIV face increased risks during COVID-19 pandemic

Marginalized groups with high vulnerability to HIV infection – commonly known as “key populations” – face significantly increased risks during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say.

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Ethiopian refugees in Sudan in dire need of protection, reproductive health care

"We travelled for four nights on foot across the bush," one refugee told UNFPA.

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