Ensuring safe births after Syria’s devastating earthquakes

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Maternity hospitals in Syria are under immense strain after the recent earthquakes.

UNFPA is providing vital maternal health care to ensure women give birth safely. Learn more.

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Carmen Barroso and Childbirth with Dignity Foundation win 2016 UN Population Award

24 June 2016

New mothers in David, Panama. Women's sexual and reproductive health, and their rights during childbirth, took centre stage at the 2016 UN Population Awards. © UNFPA/Guadalupe Valdes

Slideshow: State of Midwifery

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Midwives do much more than deliver babies, as this slideshow, created from photos submitted by UNFPA Field Offices, reveals.

The song, "Praan," was composed by Garry Schyman and is available on iTunes.

According to the authorities, 80 per cent of all women in Southern Sudan give birth at home, without the help of a midwife, and the region suffers from one of the highest maternal death rates in the world.