Updates

Canada funding supports sustainable reproductive health and protection services in Iraq

08 May 2018
New funding from Canada will support sexual and reproductive health services for women and girls in Iraq, as they rebuild their lives after conflict. © UNFPA Iraq
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Updates

Zonta International brings a global community of professional women to the fight to end child marriage

20 Nov 2018
The UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage provides services and support for adolescent girls and also engages communities to change social norms that perpetuate the practice, including through girls’ clubs that member Merhawit Mezgebe says are helping to stamp out child marriage in her district in Ethiopia. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw
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News

“I was a little girl taking care of other kids” – After violence and neglect, women in Morocco find space to heal

12 December 2018
Nuzha was barely six years old when her father forced her into domestic labour to support her siblings. “I was responsible for feeding the whole family,” she told UNFPA. © UNFPA Morocco
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Ninety per cent of Sri Lankan women endure sexual harassment on public transport, UNFPA study shows

08 March 2017
Sexual harassment is rampant on Sri Lanka's public transport system, with far-reaching effects on their jobs, educations and lives. © UNFPA Sri Lanka
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Resources

Gender-based violence in humanitarian settings

Resource date: 01 December 2014

Author: UNFPA

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Resources

Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence Module 1

Resource date: 30 December 2015

Author: UN Women, UNFPA, WHO, UNDP & UNODC

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Five things you didn’t know about disability and sexual violence

30 October 2018
Young people with disabilities face staggering rights violations, including being cut off from education and health care, and subjected to sexual violence. © UNFPA/Théodore Somda
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For girls escaping FGM in rural Tanzania, crowdsourced maps show the way to safety

22 October 2018
Ending FGM takes a multi-pronged approach – from offering a refuge for girls at acute risk to engaging families and communities to raise awareness of the harm it causes, and transform the social norms that uphold the practice. Here, girls in Tanzania’s Mara region participate in an alternative rites of passage camp at the UNFPA-supported Masanga Centre. © UNFPA/Mandela Gregoire
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Earthquake and tsunami devastating for 45,000 pregnant women in Indonesia

16 October 2018
Some 88,000 people have been displaced by the twin disasters in Indonesia's hardest-hit areas. Ibu Fariati and her family now share a tent with six other families. © UNFPA Indonesia/Stenly hely Sajow
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