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A nine-year-old girl pushes a wheelbarrow loaded with water-filled jerrycans in a IDP camp in Darfur, Sudan.

Domestic violence, forced marriage, have risen in Sudan: UN-backed study

19 July 2021
Women
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Syria’s decade of conflict has taken a massive toll on women and girls.

Syria’s decade of conflict takes massive toll on women and girls

16 March 2021
Women
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A girl holds a child in the hallway of a school-turned shelter in Tal Abyad of north Ar-Raqqa in Syria, as the conflict enters its 10th year.

UN Population Fund sounds alarm over dire situation facing women and girls in Syria, as 10th year of war begins

16 March 2020
Women
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The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is providing services to displaced women and girls across northeast Syria.

Health services for Syrian women caught up in war, foster safety and hope: UNFPA

23 January 2020
Women
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Malawian peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) greet children while on patrol in August 2012.

‘Real change’ involving women in peace and security, still too slow, Guterres tells Security Council

29 October 2019
Women
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A girl wearing her hijab in Iran (File).

Friday’s Daily Brief: Day of the Girl Child, mayors lead on climate emergency, Turkey Syria offensive, new statelessness pledges, extremism in social media

11 October 2019
Women
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Young girls in Gumam primary school, Kassala state, Sudan.

Gender equality, justice in law and practice: Essential for sustainable development

22 March 2019
Women
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Gowre, one of more than 7,000 internally displaced Yazidis living in an unfinished apartment block in a housing estate in Dohuk, nothern Iraq.

FEATURE: Sold for a packet of cigarettes – UN envoy fights to help women suffering sexual violence in the Middle East

18 June 2015
Women
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Kalpona was 12 when her parents arranged for her to marry a man more than twice her age. A few days before the wedding, they agreed to let her continue with school instead.

New UN data shows need for urgent action to end female genital mutilation, child marriage

22 July 2014
Women
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