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28 May 2024
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Menstrual Hygiene Day
Menstrual health is a human rights issue, not just a health one. Everyone has a right to bodily autonomy. The ability to care for one’s body while menstruating is an essential…
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08 May 2024
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Midwives save lives, no matter what
Midwives are the heroes of millions of stories. As providers of culturally sensitive health care, leaders in their communities and emergency responders in times of crisis,…
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08 May 2024
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Midwife Yusra: Delivering Hope in Deir Ezzor
“In my 25 years as a midwife, one of the most challenging cases was the high-risk pregnancy of a woman carrying twin fetuses,” says Yusra [47] a midwife in Deir Ezzor, Syria. …
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06 May 2024
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The Tale of Nermin: How Midwives Make a Difference
Starting her career as a midwife in 2007, Nermin Ebrahim has supported women in various rural and urban areas after graduating from the midwifery institute. She has provided…
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05 May 2024
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Midwives: Heroes on the front lines of the global climate crisis
Right now, around the world, millions of lives are in the hands of midwives. Whether they are wading through flood waters to reach pregnant women or delivering babies amid the…
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21 April 2024
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Unpacking 5 truths about equality in sexual and reproductive health and rights today
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Over the past 30 years, global commitments to sexual and reproductive health and rights have made remarkable advances: Maternal death rates have dropped…
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09 April 2024
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End discrimination to ensure the right to health for all
On World Health Day, we celebrate the successes achieved since the adoption of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action in Cairo,…
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01 April 2024
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Together, the EU and UNFPA protect Syrian women and girls in need, provide them with life-saving services in northeastern Syria
“I asked my mother to help me by borrowing some money and accompanying me to a gynecologist,” said Rama. Rama’s mother made a call to a gynecologist whom she used to visit. And…
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15 March 2024
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13 years on, the Syria crisis is pushing women and girls to the brink
“I don’t think the world understands what it means to be a woman living in Syria today,” says Shatha, a woman from Deir-ez-Zor, who is a survivor of gender-based violence.
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