KYAKA II REFUGEE SETTLEMENT/KAMPALA, Uganda---In Uganda, menstruation management presents a daunting challenge for so many adolescent girls and women. The inability to adequately manage their periods...
IBB, Yemen – Midwife Lena Al-Shurmani remembers meeting Abia* at Al Mawa Camp in Ibb. Abia was 15 years old and eight months pregnant. “I was very worried,” Ms. Al-Shurmani recalled. “She had a...
BOGOTÁ, Colombia – Griseida, 28, left Venezuela when she couldn’t find a job to feed her five children. Thirty-five-year-old Marlyng, too, left when there was no work to be found, leaving behind two...
A. Introduction The Gender-Based Violence1 Sub-Working Group (GBV SWG) is a coordinating body with the objective to strengthen GBV prevention and response in Jordan with a focus on emergency...
Regional Highlights COVID-19 cases have steadily increased since November 2020. Top five countries with the highest confirmed cases include Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. This...
Yemen remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and aid operation. Six years of escalating conflict, economic collapse, disease, natural disasters and the breakdown of public institutions and...
In light of the unfolding events in Myanmar, UNFPA joins the wider United Nations family in expressing its strongest concern over the adverse impacts on the rights, safety, health and well-being of...
AL BAB, Northwest Syria – Bana, 12, was able to escape her hometown, the city of Aleppo, before the Syrian conflict engulfed her neighbourhood. It was the first of two times she and her family would...
SITUATION UPDATE The situation in and around Marib remains volatile. Renewed fighting since the start of the year across parts of western, northern and southern Marib displaced more people mainly...
Introduction Hurricanes Eta and Iota, category 4 and 5 respectively, hit Nicaragua in November 2020. These back-to-back major hurricanes affected 60 per cent of the national territory, hitting the...