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In Egypt, men and boys stand firm against female genital mutilation

Zanaty El-Sawy first decided to research the topic of female genital mutilation to protect his two daughters. © UNFPA Egypt/Roger Anis
  • 02 January 2025
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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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“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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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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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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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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In the West Bank, mobile healthcare teams are a lifeline amid crisis

Duaa Adwa has brought her son to the mobile healthcare team during their visit to Bethlehem’s Al Uqban Village. During past visits, the team had been unable to dispense fever medicine for Ms. Adwa’s son because of supply shortages. © UNFPA/Lisa Sabella
  • 04 November 2024
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