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Women and girls’ rights are an unseen casualty of the crisis in Syria

“Life quickly became an open-air prison after the war,” a young woman from Aleppo told UNFPA. “We were instructed not to leave our houses for fear of harrassment, rape and kidnap. I was told that child marriage was my…

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

They are called “crisis rooms”: temporary accommodation for women and their children, with a kitchen, furniture, utensils and food, operated by local social welfare centres. This network of safe spaces was created to…

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8 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked

Half. That is the alarmingly high proportion of pregnancies that girls and women do not deliberately choose.

The neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy is the subject of UNFPA’s flagship 2022 State of…

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Empowering and investing in midwives could save millions of lives each year

“My great-grandmother was a midwife,” said Erika Martinez, 23. “She was one of my biggest inspirations.”

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UNFPA and WFP join forces to meet soaring reproductive health and nutrition needs in southern Madagascar

Just weeks away from delivering her fifth child, Homoroe Haova, 33, looked down at her stomach and smiled, reassured she could give birth safely as well as feed her children in the coming weeks.

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5 things to know about motherhood

Celebrated around the world throughout the year, Mother’s Day is exactly that: celebratory. But for some women, motherhood can be fraught. Women have become mothers below ground in wartime (Ukraine), under bridges after…

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

At 16, Thekra Obied was one more mouth to feed in her impoverished family, so they married her off to Ahmed, a wood collector 15 years older. At 19, she became pregnant with their first child, but they could barely…

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One woman’s winning idea in taking climate action harnesses the power of the sun

As a girl, Agnes Kimweri would visit her village’s sole medical dispensary in Tanzania and see a steady stream of motorcycles emitting noxious fumes dropping off patients. When she grew up, “I realized that the…

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Women and girls in South Sudan battle mounting sexual violence amid conflict and climate crises

An estimated 2.6 million people in South Sudan are at risk of gender-based violence in 2022, an alarming 25 per cent increase on 2021 estimates. Nearly 40 per cent of women and girls reported having to avoid essential…

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