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Keeping Displaced Women Safe and Healthy

September 2, 2014

Tens of thousands of Philippine women and girls made homeless by Typhoon Haiyan continue to live in crowded evacuation centres. UNFPA is providing reproductive health care and working to prevent gender-based violence.

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Bringing Family Planning to Remote Lao Villages

September 2, 2014

Community-based provision of family planning services is an important and effective modality for reaching remote areas where the poverty rate is high and formal health facilities do not exist.

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The Philippines: Protecting Women and Girls After Haiyan

September 2, 2014

UNFPA is providing reproductive health care and working to prevent gender-based violence against women and girls who struggle to survive after Typhoon Haiyan.  The national police are putting in place mechanisms to ensure their safety until the situa

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Women and War: Afghanistan

September 2, 2014

In Afghanistan, conflict has not only caught the female non-combatants in its violence, but have severely crippled already inadequate services such as health and education.

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Family Planning in Sierra Leone: An Integrated Approach

September 2, 2014

Preliminary results of the 2013 Demographic and Health Survey released in Sierra Leone indicate that the country has improved health services in the last five years, especially in the area of family planning.

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Leaders pledge to help end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths within a generation

26 September 2014
Munira Sha'ban, a renowned Jordanian midwife, speaks at a high-level UN event on improving the survival of women, newborns and children. Beside her are Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Chinese diplomacy leader Li Xiaolin, and Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals and For Malaria Ray Chambers. Photo credit: Stuart Ramson/UN Foundation
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In one girl's stand against child marriage, a path forward for development

29 September 2014
Nana shakes the hand of Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird after speaking at a high-level panel on child marriage. Photo credit: Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada
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Bearing witness to a revolution in women’s health and rights

01 October 2014
Munira Sha'ban, Jordan's celebrated midwife (centre), with UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin and UNFPA Director Dianne Stewart. Photo credit: UNFPA/Omar Kasrawi
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