African football series: Matshidiso, Sex Worker, Pretoria

Published on: 01/06/2010

Ahead of the 2010 World Cup in Africa, people from across the continent tell the stories of how football impacts on their lives in a new series of African Football Shorts.

Les Survivantes: sur la route

Published on: 02/09/2014

With UNFPA support, WAHA produced “Survivors – wounded during childbirth,” a series of documentaries telling the stories of women with fistula and the doctors who provide treatment in Ethiopia.

Healing the Wounds of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina [Long Version]

Published on: 02/09/2014

The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina may have ended 15 years ago, but for some 20,000 women, the legacy of wartime rape lives on. Women of all ethnic groups are still trying to cope with the psychological effects of violence perpetrated against them.

Making Childbirth Safe Again After Haiyan

Published on: 02/09/2014

Typhoon Haiyan destroyed birthing facilities and hospitals, leaving thousands of pregnant women without a place to deliver and threatening  years of progress. UNFPA is working to restore reproductive health services.

Life on the Edge: Sorie K

Published on: 02/09/2014

Sorie Kondi, blind from birth, has been called Sierra Leone's Stevie Wonder - but that may be premature. Still trying to make it as a world musician, Sorie's worried about the future of his daughter Zainab.

Keeping Displaced Women Safe and Healthy

Published on: 02/09/2014

Tens of thousands of Philippine women and girls made homeless by Typhoon Haiyan continue to live in crowded evacuation centres. UNFPA is providing reproductive health care and working to prevent gender-based violence.

Bringing Family Planning to Remote Lao Villages

Published on: 02/09/2014

Community-based provision of family planning services is an important and effective modality for reaching remote areas where the poverty rate is high and formal health facilities do not exist.

The Philippines: Protecting Women and Girls After Haiyan

Published on: 02/09/2014

UNFPA is providing reproductive health care and working to prevent gender-based violence against women and girls who struggle to survive after Typhoon Haiyan.  The national police are putting in place mechanisms to ensure their safety until the situa

Too Young to Wed: Destaye

Published on: 02/09/2014

Married at 11, Destaye had hoped to stay in school.  But the birth of her child a few years later interrupted her plans. This short film examines the journey of an Ethiopian child bride.

Women and War: Afghanistan

Published on: 02/09/2014

In Afghanistan, conflict has not only caught the female non-combatants in its violence, but have severely crippled already inadequate services such as health and education.

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