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Serving Syrian refugee women amid Iraq's escalating crisis

26 August 2014

UNFPA staff distribute dignity kits, containing essential hygiene supplies, to women in Iraq. Photo credit: UNFPA/Veronica Njikho

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Youth volunteers in Iran show their selfies to promote role of young people

28 August 2014

Young volunteers at a UNFPA-supported training in Kerman, Iran, participate in the #showyourselfie campaign to promote the role of youth in development.Photo credit: UNFPA Iran

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On World Humanitarian Day, celebrating UNFPA’s humanitarian heroes

19 August 2014

Catherine Njeri Makumi, a volunteer midwife in Juba, South Sudan. Photo: UNFPA South Sudan/Jaime Jacques

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Syrian crisis takes heaviest toll on region’s women and girls

13 August 2014

A Syrian refugee visits a reproductive health centre at Domiz Camp in Dohuk, Iraq. Photo credit: UNFPA/Aral Kakl

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In Thailand's refugee camps, shifting attitudes about sexual and reproductive health

16 September 2014

Saba has her blood pressure checked during a consultation with a refugee nurse assistant at a sexual and reproductive health clinic in the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand. <i>Photo credit: UNFPA Thailand

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Community health workers respond to Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

11 August 2014

UNFPA Regional Family Planning Coordinator Brima Kamara conducts a training for community contact tracers. Photo credit: Crispin Cole

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UNFPA deploys support for women, girls amid mass flight from Iraq’s Sinjar

08 August 2014

UNFPA distributes dignity kits to displaced familieis in Sharia, Iraq. Photo credit: UNFPA Iraq

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Tens of thousands in need of maternal health services in Gaza

07 August 2014

On 25 July 2014, woman stands near rubble in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Photo credit: UNICEF/NYHQ2014-1005/El Baba

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UNFPA responds to needs of 36,000 pregnant women displaced in Pakistan

28 July 2014

Thousands of displaced families have been living for years in the Jalozai camp in Pakistan's Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At the end of June, military operations in  North Waziristan sent thousands more families into displacement; most of them fled to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu District. Photo credit: OCHA

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In South Sudan, opposition to family planning exacerbates reproductive health needs

30 July 2014

A pregnant women receives antenatal care at a UNFPA clinic in a displacement camp in Juba, South Sudan. The country has too few health professionals to meet women's reproductive health needs.Photo credit: Tim McKulka/UNFPA

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