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Return of Chibok girls highlights needs of women and girls

10 November 2016

Women and girls are at risk in Boko Haram-affected areas. © OCHA/Ó. Fagan

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Conflict, poverty, poor health conditions a deadly mix for mothers in South Sudan

08 November 2016

Midwife Justine Mangwi was not able to save the newborn's mother. © UNFPA South Sudan

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Risks to women and girls soar in hurricane-slammed Haiti

04 November 2016

Urgent action is required to protect the lives of thousands of women and girls. © UNFPA/Eddie Wright

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Women’s health needs critical as battle for Mosul intensifies

03 November 2016

A displaced family walks under a sky blackened by burning oil wells in Qayyarah, south of Mosul. Nineteen oil wells were set ablaze as ISIL retreated from the area. © OCHA/ Themba Linden

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With high child marriage rates among Syrian refugees, one girl takes a stand

02 November 2016

Raneem Abras, 16, a Syrian refugee living in Lebanon, advocates against child marriage. © UNFPA Lebanon/Sima Diab

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Violence against women escalates under Yemen's brutal conflict

31 October 2016

Violence against women was widespread even before the current conflict, but experts say abuses are becoming even more commonplace. A women's shelter in a port city in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen

Rural Haiti slammed by Hurricane Matthew

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Rural Haiti is hard to reach. Women and girls there need reproductive health care. Without urgent action, maternal deaths will rise, and vulnerability to sexual violence will increase.

What happens when a hurricane hits a hospital

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See what happens when a hurricane hits a hospital. Beaumont Hospital, in Haiti, was devastated by Hurricane Matthew.

Some 13,000 women will give birth in hurricane-affected areas in the next three months. Thousands of them will experience complications. Without urgent action, maternal death rates will rise.

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Health facilities devastated in Hurricane Matthew: “I couldn’t have left the women there to die”

25 October 2016

Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on 4 October, unleashing the greatest devastation the country has seen since the 2010 earthquake. © UNFPA/Eddie Wright

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Giving girls a voice in Zika-affected communities

21 October 2016

Barbara, Jocelly and Maria Eduarda after attending a reproductive health seminar in Goiana, Brazil. © UNFPA Brazil/Tatiana Almeida

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