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1 April 2020
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Yveka, 17, visits a UNFPA mobile clinic in Haiti. Haiti's former Minister of Women, Dr. Lise Marie Dejean, says many women lack autonomy over their bodies and health. © UNFPA
Staggering numbers of women unable to exercise decision-making over their own bodies, new UNFPA report shows
A new report by UNFPA offers, for the first time, a global view of women’s decision-making power over their own bodies. The findings are dismaying.
31 March 2020
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Journalist and teacher Giorgi Liparishvili plays with his son Tevdore. © UNFPA Georgia/Guram Kapanadze
As COVID-19 pandemic increases childcare burden, calls for Georgian men to step up
School closures and stay-at-home orders are dramatically increasing the burden on parents, with women traditionally shouldering the majority of childcare responsibilities.
26 March 2020
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A woman in Iraq. © UNFPA Iraq/Seivan Salim
Former child bride, once sold to pay debts, finds a new start
Intisar* was only 15 years old her parents sold her to another family to pay off a debt.
19 March 2020
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Women face increased risk of violence, loss of livelihoods and other threats under the pandemic. © Unsplash/Tam Wai
As pandemic rages, women and girls face intensified risks
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages around the world, governments are taking unprecedented measures to limit the spread of the virus, ramping up health system responses and announcing movement restrictions affecting millions... Read more
12 March 2020
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A village health worker discusses family planning with women at Moeketsane Clinic in Mokhotlong. © UNFPA Lesotho/Violet Maraisane
In climate change-affected Lesotho, self-injected contraceptives empower women to choose their own future
Regina Mokoena has seen first-hand how drought and climate change are increasing the demand for family planning in her village.
5 March 2020
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"I want my daughters to be respected as human beings," says Fawzia Koofi, a trailblazer in Afghanistan. © Johannes Eisele/AFP/GettyImages
“We must resolutely resist any attempts to go back”: Listening to the icons and activists of women’s rights
The eighth of March is International Women’s Day, and the stakes could not be higher.
5 March 2020
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Sanitary supplies, medical equipment and other essentials are being distributed in the hardest-hit parts of China. © UNFPA China
As COVID-19 continues to spread, pregnant and breastfeeding women advised to take precautions
Pregnant women should take routine preventative actions to avoid infection with the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), UNFPA announced in a statement today. Little is currently known about the vulnerability of pregnant... Read more
4 March 2020
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Young people in Myanmar face a variety of risk factors for depression and other mental health disorders, including exposure to conflict and humanitarian crisis. © UNFPA Myanmar
Better suicide prevention and mental health care needed among Myanmar’s most vulnerable
Globally, a person dies from suicide every 40 seconds. In Myanmar, conflict and crisis may leave young people at increased vulnerability.
22 February 2020
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A simulation of childbirth in an infection prevention and control situation taking place in an environment sensitive to the Ebola virus. © UNFPA DRC
Protecting midwives on the front lines of the Ebola response
The Democratic Republic of the Congo remains in the grip of the world’s second largest Ebola epidemic on record, and among those most at risk are health workers.
14 February 2020
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Khadija Bahzad holds a baby she delivered in Marrakech. Ms. Bahzad is a midwifery trainer, strengthening the skills of other midwives in the country. © UNFPA
Maternal deaths declining in Morocco thanks to midwives, but more support needed
Madame Najat Baloui, a midwife in Casablanca, vividly remembers a childbirth that went horribly wrong. “A woman was delivering vaginally,” Ms. Baloui recalled. “After several hours, the labour stopped suddenly.”

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