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Do you know your rights? Protections from gender-based violence amid displacement

In Haiti, this mother-of-six was raped while four months pregnant and fleeing from gang violence. © UNFPA Haiti/Wendy Desert
  • 13 December 2024
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Bertha Arzú: The Afro-indigenous activist who took on HIV in Honduras

Bertha Arzú walks along the beach in Tela, Honduras. © UNFPA Honduras
  • 27 November 2024
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Women deliver babies on the road and under fire as catastrophe grips Sudan’s Aj Jazirah State

As violence intensifies across southeast Sudan, hundreds of thousands of people have fled Aj Jazirah State for neighbouring Gedaref State, taking refuge in cramped, makeshift camps. Credit: © UNFPA Sudan
  • 12 December 2024
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27 November 2024

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“I came to help my sisters”: As Chad grapples with record floods and a refugee crisis, midwives are bridging the divide

A woman collects clean drinking water in a camp sheltering more than 4,000 displaced people after the Chari River flooded in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, in October 2024. Credit: © UNFPA Chad / Karel Prinsloo
  • 17 December 2024
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An expectant mother hit by floods in northern Nigeria shares her story

Published on: 16/12/2024

“When the floods hit us, it was two weeks before my expected delivery date.”

Fatima, one of our heroic community mobilizers in Nigeria, is among the many expectant mothers affected by the recent flooding in the northern part of the country.

See her story and how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding to the crisis.  

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

In the Bakasi displacement camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, community mobilizers speak to flood survivors about how to receive support for gender-based violence, which is known to increase in crisis settings. © UNFPA Nigeria/Dawali David Exodus
  • 05 December 2024
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12 November 2024

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A sisterhood of support: Improving maternity care in Ethiopia’s climate change-ravaged Somali region

A pregnant woman is attended to by a midwife at the Karamara Hospital in Ethiopia’s Somali region; every month health workers at the hospital safely assist some 600 deliveries. Credit: UNFPA Ethiopia
  • 11 November 2024
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