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A midwife speaks about family planning at a family planning "open house" at a health centre in Assahoun, Togo.

Health workers in West Africa “in daily danger” while providing reproductive health services

Y-Peer volunteers wear protective gear as they assemble the dignity and hygiene kits.

Youth mobilize to support Egypt’s front-line health workers

The Joint Programme on Girls' Education brings together teachers and parents to help keep girls in school.

Teachers and mothers join forces to keep girls in school in Malawi

Ms. Brema trains women in her village to become electricians.

Sahel project helps women raise themselves, their communities from poverty

Dignity kits contain supplies to help women and girls protect themselves and their communities from the pandemic.

Dignity kits bring hygiene supplies to vulnerable communities in pandemic-affected area of the Gambia

Africa COVID-19

A health facility in Tanzania’s Simiyu region, which was renovated through a two-year programme supported by UNFPA with funding from KOICA.

Safe birth services save lives, prevent childbirth injury in Tanzania

Aina attends a prenatal consultation with midwife Bakoly Rasoamanontany at Itaosy District Hospital of Reference.

Free transport helps pregnant women in Madagascar safely deliver amid COVID-19 lockdown

Africa COVID-19

"I want my daughters to be respected as human beings," says Fawzia Koofi, a trailblazer in Afghanistan.

“We must resolutely resist any attempts to go back”: Listening to the icons and activists of women’s rights

Investing in the health of Africa’s mothers

Many are too poor to survive childbirth

Taking on violence against women in Africa

women Gender Equality

International norms, local activism start to alter laws, attitudes

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