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Flooding in the Balkans leaves stagnant water, hygiene needs

05 March 2015
Mogila resident Vele Nedelkovski shows Red Cross workers his flood-damaged home. © UNFPA
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Brushes and blushes: Livelihood skills help Syrian refugee escape child marriage

11 March 2015
A girl peeks from her one-room shelter in an informal settlment for Syrian refugees in Al-Marj, Lebanon. Desperation has pushed some Syrian refugee families to see child marriage as a way to relieve economic pressures. © UNFPA/ David Brunetti
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Slashing Haiti’s maternal and infant death rates, one delivery at a time

26 February 2015
A UNFPA-supported clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, provides antenatal care, safe delivery, emergency obstetric and neonatal care, and many other life-saving services for women and their newborns. © Jared Chambers
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Finding justice for survivors of gender-based violence in Somalia

25 February 2015
A volunteer works in the community police unit in Garowe, Somalia. ©UNFPA/Pilirani Semu-Banda
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South Sudan Country Office Situation Report #57 - 5-19 Feb 2015

Submitted by zerzan on

The security situation while generally calm remained tense and highly fragile in some parts of the country. Humanitarian needs remain high in Protection of Civilian and Internally Displaced Person camp sites. Partners continued prepositioning commodities in remote areas to ensure delivery of services during the rainy season. UNFPA continued providing coordination to reproductive health working group and gender-based violence sub-cluster with meetings with stake-holders taking place in a regular basis within all the humanitarian hubs.

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Fierce winter weather batters displaced Syrians throughout region

20 February 2015
Syrian refugees remove snow from their shelters at an informal tented settlement in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, during a January blizzard. © UNHCR/A. McConnell
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Recognizing an unsung hero – the ambulance driver

16 February 2015
Chris Kwikiriza, a midwife, checks on an expectant mother at the Biira Health Centre, in the Boroli refugee settlement in Uganda. A UNFPA-supported ambulance is helping to ensure women in labour are able to deliver under the care of skilled birth attendants. © UNFPA/Eveyln Kiapi
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South Sudan Country Office Situation Report #56 - 23 Jan-5 Feb 2015

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The situation remains relatively calm countrywide, but unpredictable. Intermittent clashes and intercommunity fighting were reported in some parts of the country.

The Government and opposition have signed a peace agreement in Addis Ababa under the mediation of the Intergovernmental Agency for Development (IGAD) and the international community to end the conflict that caused 1.5 million people internally displaced and may leave about 6.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance by the end of 2015.