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Former child bride, once sold to pay debts, finds a new start

26 March 2020
A woman in Iraq. © UNFPA Iraq/Seivan Salim
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A look back at the 2010s: A decade of voices and choices

23 December 2019
The world has seen both peril and promise in the last 10 years.
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Luxembourg announces over €6.7M in new funding for UNFPA

06 Aug 2019
Mr. Manuel Tonnar, Director at the Luxembourg Development Cooperation Directorate, meets UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at UNFPA headquarters in New York. © UNFPA
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Child bride, mother of seven, refugee and, today, an independent woman

21 June 2019
A Syrian refugee in northern Iraq. © UNFPA/Seivan Salim
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A nightmare within a nightmare: Taking on sexual and gender-based violence in humanitarian crises

28 May 2019
UNFPA holds sessions raising awareness about gender-based violence, and the availability of support services, in a displacement camp in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen
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A long road to safety, healing for refugee mothers in Iraq

17 May 2019
Years into Syria's grinding conflict, refugees need support to rebuild their lives. © UNFPA Iraq
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Support for reproductive health needs, survivor-centred care bolstered by new commitment from Government of Japan

07 Mar 2019
UNFPA and the Government of Japan are partnering to provide critical reproductive health support in Iraq. Image courtesy of Courtesy of UIMS.
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Survivor-centred aid for women and girls from Mosul

25 Feb 2019
Christos Stylianides, the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, and Alexander De Croo, the Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Finance and Development Cooperation, visited Hammam Al-Aleel camp for internally displaced persons in Mosul. © UNFPA Iraq
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#AWomanEvenHere

More than 500 women die in pregnancy or childbirth every day in humanitarian and fragile settings

UNFPA has launched "A Woman Even Here," a campaign that calls for partners, donors and the public to prioritize women's right to safety and dignity in humanitarian response. Learn more here. 

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