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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
N'DJAMENA/OUADDAÏ REGION, Chad – “The water ruined everything – the rice, the money... Everything is under water.” In October 2024, Gloria Nadjitessem, 31, lost her home in Chad’s capital N'Djamena to…
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Do you know your rights? Protections from gender-based violence amid displacement
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Disasters and wars drive people from their homes and into displacement, insecurity, and skyrocketing risk of abuses like rape, child marriage and trafficking.
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Women deliver babies on the road and under fire as catastrophe grips Sudan’s Aj Jazirah State
AJ JAZIRAH STATE, Sudan – This was Amina’s fifth delivery by Caesarean section, but the first performed on the floor of a stranger’s home. “I had to start walking again just six hours later, carrying my baby while my…
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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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