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Explainer: Why are gender equality and reproductive rights essential for peace?

Saima, working with a UNFPA programme that rehabilitates ex-combatants, raises awareness in her community about gender-based violence and harmful practices. © UNFPA Philippines / Vonna Vista
  • 20 September 2024
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“Innovators, entrepreneurs and catalysts for transformation”: Three youth leaders on climate make the case for sexual and reproductive rights

Imali Ngusale, Isabel Adriana Garcia Gómez and Tasnia Ahmed are youth leaders on climate and sexual and reproductive rights. © Imali Ngusale/Isabel Adriana Garcia Gómez/Divisional Youth Forum/Jawad Hossain
  • 23 September 2024
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Escalating hostilities in Lebanon have gendered impact on women and girls

Adolescent girls take shelter at a public school in Mount Lebanon after fleeing their homes from the south following escalation of hostilities across the country. © UNFPA Lebanon/Anastacia Hajj
  • 27 September 2024
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“They are like family”: Mobile health workers care for women and girls uprooted by conflict in Sudan

Women and girls who have been displaced from their homes take refuge in a bus shelter. © UNFPA Sudan / Sufian Abdul-Mouty
  • 24 September 2024
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Activism, art and community as support networks for young people living with HIV in Ecuador

Twenty-seven-year-old activist Anthony Guerrero is proud to come from the coastal province of Esmeraldas, despite its challenges. © Carlos Sanchez
  • 19 September 2024
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Updates

UNFPA and Essity collaborate to improve menstrual health in the workplace

24 Sep 2024

Sahil Tesfu, Chief Strategy Officer (fourth speaker from the left) shares her views on sexual and reproductive health and rights at UNFPA’s side event at the World Economic Forum 2024 © UNFPA/Marcel Mainzer
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Partnerships of the Future: The Role of the Private Sector in Advancing Women’s Health and Well-being

24 September 2024

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Journeys of motherhood and hope in northwest Syria

Alaa Nabeel holds her newborn daughter in the Medina Maternity and Neonatal Hospital in Idlib, northwest Syria. Credit: Shafak Organization.
  • 17 September 2024
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“We say: Yes, you can”: Facing adversity and protecting women in the Peruvian jungle

Dafne Aquino travels long distances in a small boat to reach the most remote communities of indigenous women in the Peruvian Amazon. Credit: UNFPA Peru / Polo Santos
  • 13 September 2024
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“A race against time”: Djamila’s journey to hospital by canoe in flood-ravaged Cameroon

A pregnant woman is stranded by her house amid recent flooding in Cameroon’s Far North region. Credit: UNFPA Cameroon / Samuel Sawalda
  • 11 September 2024
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