A survivor-centred approach is essential to meeting the needs of women and girls, staff at the Hammam Al-Aleel camp women’s centre told a visiting European delegation this week.

UNFPA delivered critical supplies to a remote settlement in Rukban, where residents have been stranded in the desert for years.

A new report from Eastern and Southern Africa links shame and misinformation around menstruation to gender discrimination, child marriage, exclusion, poverty, violence and untreated health problems.