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9 June 2021
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Gender-based violence, including domestic violence, conflict-related sexual violence, and harmful practices, are widespread in many parts of the country. UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem
8 June 2021
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”I have never been loved or respected by anyone in my life except a few early years by my mother,” said Shohan, a transgender woman living in Dhaka who left her family when she was 11.
Her experience is not... Read more
3 June 2021
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Fabiola Ulloa, 23, gave birth under a bridge where she had taken shelter from a raging hurricane.
28 May 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life for people around the globe, including the way people experience and perceive menstruation. Latin America and the Caribbean region has been no exception.
28 May 2021
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An informal online survey in the region found 24 of 69 respondents had no information about menstruation prior to experiencing their first period.
28 May 2021
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It can be challenging enough when a girl gets her first period – she may not even know what is happening to her body. Now put her in a situation in which she’s been displaced or vulnerable because of a natural disaster... Read more
27 May 2021
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“I was running from place to place without food or shelter. I was in fear all the time... There was no safe place for me until I got to the safe house,” 22-year-old Selam* recounted to UNFPA.
24 May 2021
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This month, Botswana became the first country in Southern Africa, and the third in Africa, to pilot drone technology for health-care delivery.
21 May 2021
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Beatriz Sebastião suffered in silence. She had no friends in the neighborhood or at school. When she went to church, she sat alone. When she went to the river, other women mocked her before leaving to bathe elsewhere.
20 May 2021
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“I was very scared on behalf of the poor child. I felt her pain,” the counsellor told Dr. Kanem. “But I told myself I should be strong for that child."