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Pregnant women struggle to find care after Pakistan's floods

Pregnant women are struggling to get care after Pakistan’s unprecedented flooding this summer that inundated a third of the country at its height and drove millions from their homes

The Independent UK

It's a bleak 'Day of the Girl' because of the pandemic. But no one's giving up hope

The United Nations established the Day of the Girl a decade ago to address issues that affect girls' rights: education, teen pregnancy, child marriage. Steady progress has been made. Then came COVID.

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Floods Affect 150,000 Women in Yemen, 200,000 Others at Risk

Women and girls in Yemen suffer the harshest fallout from the severe funding shortfall of the Humanitarian Rapid Response Mechanism and the floods that struck most of the refugee camps in several governorates, recent UN reports revealed. Of the 4.3 million people displaced within Yemen, more than three-quarters are women…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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‘The hospital has nothing’: Pakistan’s floods put pregnant women in danger

A third of the country is under water and a UN fund says almost 650,000 women in affected areas need maternity services

The Guardian - UK

Women stranded in Pakistan floods take risky trips to give birth

Rubina Mallah took a perilous, three-hour boat journey across flood waters to get to the nearest hospital in time to give birth to her baby son, as the roads leading to the clinic in the southern Pakistani city of Sehwan were submerged.

Reuters

India develops indigenous cervical cancer vaccine to save millions of lives

India's homegrown cervical cancer shot, announced on Thursday, will be made available first to the country's poorest before being exported to other countries in need.

Radio France Internationale

Humanitarians in the age of crises

The lights are flashing red as we look at the cascade of humanitarian crises in Asia and the Pacific.

Bangkok Post

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Life expectancy increases in Africa by 10 years, but not for all

The World Health Organization (WHO) has praised African countries for improvements in health services that have seen average life expectancy jump by a whopping 10 years.

Radio France Internationale

‘Run philosophy’: the Chinese citizens seeking to leave amid Covid uncertainty

With Beijing’s zero Covid policy set to continue, many disillusioned citizens have begun planning to leave the country

The Guardian - UK

KSrelief Supports Life-Saving Reproductive Health Program in Yemen

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has announced a contribution of $2.5 million, supporting the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), to provide life-saving reproductive health services to the most vulnerable women and girls in Yemen. The funding will help increase access to reproductive health services for women…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Global reproductive and women's rights groups react to overturn of Roe v. Wade

Some nonprofit groups have welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court decision. But many global reproductive and women's rights groups condemned the ruling.

WEKU

Restricting abortion just makes it more deadly, says U.N. after U.S. ruling

Restricting abortion access does not stop people seeking the procedure "it only makes it more deadly," a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 1973 decision legalizing abortion.

Reuters

‘Blood on their hands’: world’s medics condemn US overturn of abortion rights

Statement signed by more than 100 global healthcare groups says US court decision ‘will cost lives for years to come’

The Guardian - UK

Maintaining dignity during periods

Across the region, the unique needs of women and girls are often overlooked -- particularly their menstrual health. When a disaster hits, people who menstruate often do not have access to menstrual materials such as pads and underwear in a context that lacks clean water and waste disposal systems.

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UNFPA holds forum in Ghana on connecting African diaspora

The forum is part of a UN initiative to advance rights of people of African descent and connect the diaspora to Africa.

Bangkok Post

The crisis of unintended pregnancy

Mother and daughter, Liza and Agnes, living in a small seaside community of St Bernard in the Philippines, recalled the day Super Typhoon Rai made landfall. When I visited them, they told me that when the typhoon hit, the wind sounded like a thousand horses thundering through the community and…

The Guardian - UK

Fertility myths put millions off contraception, UN report warns

More than half of pregnancies worldwide are unintended, with stigma and misinformation leading factors in lack of family planning, says UNFPA

The Independent UK

‘Human rights crisis’: 121 million pregnancies around world each year are unintended, UN study finds

‘They may be survivors of abuse or exploitation; they may have been forced to marry early; or they may have lacked access to modern contraception,’ says campaigner

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UN: Half of global pregnancies unintended

Nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said Wednesday, warning that the war in Ukraine could further exacerbate what it called a "human rights crisis".

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