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23 September 2020
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In response to the pandemic, El Salvador has launched a medical telecare service that will serve three priority groups: pregnant and post-partum women, children under the age of five, and people requiring mental health... Read more
22 September 2020
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Years of war, poverty and gender-based violence have taken a serious toll on the mental health of many women and girls in Yemen. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic hardships have only aggravated their... Read more
16 September 2020
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Life has come to a standstill in much of India’s Bihar State as a ferocious monsoon season coincides with the COVID-19 pandemic.
14 September 2020
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The pandemic has taken a serious toll in Afghanistan. So far, more than 38,000 people have tested positive for the virus, out of 100,000 tested samples. Nearly 10 per cent of confirmed cases are among health... Read more
10 September 2020
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A month after the Beirut Port explosion, life remains uncertain for thousands of women and girls.
10 September 2020
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The 25th of August marked a tragic anniversary: three years since the mass influx of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh from neighbouring Myanmar.
3 September 2020
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Just as the COVID-19 pandemic was just reaching Afghanistan, flash floods, armed conflict and economic turmoil were leaving much of the country in need of humanitarian assistance.
28 August 2020
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Viet Nam has released the world’s first culturally validated follow-up research on violence against women. Progress is slow, the results show.
25 August 2020
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Views of smouldering wreckage are being steadily replaced by scenes of collective action.
24 August 2020
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“I was really afraid because of COVID-19,” Frantzia Noël told UNFPA. She is 35 years old and 4 months pregnant, living in north-western Haiti.