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Young women emerge as responders, leaders in Nepal flooding
Flooding in southern Nepal this August affected over a million people, displacing tens of thousands . The destruction was widespread in Rautahat District, where 20-year-old Priyanka Singh lives.
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Las adolescentes hablan de la desigualdad
Despite years of efforts and advances, full gender equality has yet to be realized. There is not one country in the world free of gender-based violence or discrimination. And in too many places, the burdens of...
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HIV prevention efforts must reach vulnerable girls and young women
More than one in five adults in Swaziland are HIV-positive, according to the most recent data, and the rates are highest among women. Despite these dangers, young people – and young women in particular – often lack the...
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Safe spaces offer relief as fighting in Marawi rages on
Jamela Sani stood before a group of girls and new mothers, explaining that violence against women is an abuse – and that help is available. They were gathered in a tent in Pawak, a village about five kilometres from the...
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Women stand strong after Irma
A scurry of activity greeted visitors at one of Antigua’s two largest temporary shelters, National Technical Training Centre, which houses around 70 Barbudans displaced by Hurricane Irma. Shelter manager Samantha...
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Líderes piden por acceso a suministros de salud reproductiva en situaciones de crisis
"Mi esposo y yo acordamos usar la planificación familiar y no tener más hijos, pero fue presionado por su familia y yo volví a quedarme embarazada", comentó Ahlam, madre de dos hijos en Yemen. Cuando se puso...
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Cholera poses grave risks to pregnant women in conflict-affected Nigeria
Yana, 25, was three months pregnant when she fell sick with cholera just days ago. “I was already suffering, but then I started bleeding, and the baby is gone now,” she told UNFPA in one of the tent wards for cholera...
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UN and EU launch global effort to end violence against women
Violence against women continues to be the most pervasive human rights violation in the world. Roughly one in three women experience physical or sexual assault in her lifetime – and this figure may well be an...
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Líderes abordan en las Naciones Unidas el uso de la violencia sexual como arma de guerra
"Nuestras chicas no nacieron para ser esclavas sexuales. Cada una de ellas tenía un sueño o una meta para el futuro ", dijo Zina Salim Hassan, defensora de Yazidi de 21 años, ante el UNFPA antes de un evento...
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