Mobile teams resume reproductive health care in Rakhine, Myanmar

19 June 2014

Rahae Na Bagum, 19, holds her 18-month-old baby at Dai Pai Hospital in Rakhine State, in September 2013, before humanitarian staff were evacuated following attacks in March 2014. Photo credit: UNFPA Myanmar

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Training helps Filipino police officer uncover human trafficking case

18 June 2014

Carmela Bastes (standing), a social welfare officer with the Tacloban City Social Welfare Development Office, promotes awareness on gender-based violence and human trafficking in communities affected by Typhoon Haiyan. Photo credit: UNFPA Philippines

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UNFPA assists Balkan flood survivors

06 June 2014

Heavy and uninterrupted rainfall last month caused the worst flooding the Balkans have seen in more than a century.  Photo credit: UNCT Serbia / Djordje Novakovic

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Myanmar’s “red angel” midwives prepare to bring care to displaced women in Rakhine

28 May 2014

A "red angel" midwife cares for a mother and her newborn in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo credit: UNFPA/Benny Manser

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In South Sudan, 200,000 pregnant women may need urgent care

19 May 2014

Pregnant women attend a health seminar at a UNFPA-run health centre in the Tomping displacement camp in Juba, South Sudan. Photo credit: UNFPA/Tim McKulka

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Caught in crisis, South Sudanese women learn to plan their families

07 May 2014

Mothers listen to a community health worker talk about family planning in the Tomping camp in Juba, South Sudan. Photo credit: Kenneth Odiwuor

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Syria's Refugees Meet Mama Munira

20 March 2014

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Sound of Silence: Dealing with the Legacy of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War

17 March 2014

Hasija was one of the first women to testify before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in a case of war rape, in 1996. Her hometown of Rakitnica was set ablaze during the war and her family was expelled. Her father and brother did not survive. Photo credit: Armin Smailovic/Sarajevo, 2010

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More Support Still Needed for Health, Protection of Women and Girls 100 Days After Typhoon Haiyan

19 February 2014

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UNFPA Official Hails Heroism of Haiyan Health Workers

31 January 2014

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