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One year on, Joint Innovation Challenge winners keep up the fight against gender-based violence

UNITED NATIONS, New York – Ending gender-based violence will take commitment, compassion and, as demonstrated by the winners of the 2022 Joint Innovation Challenge, resourcefulness and creativity too.

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Supporting survivors of sexual assault in Ethiopia, and working to stop violence before it starts

BULE HORA CITY, Ethiopia – Ayantu* was 14 when she was betrayed by someone society had taught her to trust.

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A glimmer of hope for women and girls as a sexual and reproductive health clinic reopens in Sudan’s West Darfur State

WEST DARFUR STATE, Sudan – “I came to the health centre after the fighting calmed down, but I found it destroyed – there were no beds left, no equipment, no supplies,” recalled Hiba*, a doctor in the city of El Geneina…

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“It's about our health and our future”: Ensuring sexual and reproductive health support in northern Mozambique

NIASSA PROVINCE, Mozambique – Early in the morning, queues begin to form outside the Lichinga health centre in Mozambique’s northwest Niassa province, as staff prepare to treat patients.

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Indigenous men advocate gender equality to benefit women – and men too

COMARCA NGABE BUGLE, Panama – Gender inequality is pervasive everywhere. Globally, 9 in 10 people around the world, both women and men, continue to harbour gender biases, according to a recent United Nations report.…

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Tackling the hidden mental health crisis in Yemen

IBB GOVERNORATE, Yemen – “I wanted to be a midwife – midwives are respected. I thought being a midwife would give me the freedom to help and guide other women to have fulfilling lives,” Kholoud told UNFPA, the United…

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Midwives go door-to-door amid flooding in Peru, reaching thousands with critical health services

PIURA, Peru – In the first months of 2023, torrential rains flooded the streets of Veintiséis de Octubre in Peru’s northwestern Piura district, interrupting city services and trapping people in their homes. For 30-year-…

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Heroes amid crises – 8 stories of resilience and hope from 2023

UNITED NATIONS, New York – From droughts to floods, displacement and conflicts – the cycle of despair in 2023 seemed unstoppable. Yet in crisis after crisis, so were the accounts of the selfless and the heroic. As the…

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An unequal world: Designing a safer, healthier place for women and girls in Argentina, Cameroon and Uganda

United Nations, NEW YORK – What would the world look like if it was designed by and for women? 

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