March 28
Ethiopia: Supporting GBV Survivors in Amhara to Recover and Build Resilience
Amina is one of the many women who have experienced conflict-related sexual violence during the devastating two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia. For more than three years, she… Read more »
December 14, 2023
Ethiopia: 'Putting My Pieces Back Together' - Azeb's Journey of Recovery With UNFPA's Support After Being Gang Raped
"My name is Azeb*. I am 33 and I live in the Mambuk IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camp in the Benishangul Gumuz region, Ethiopia. Me and my family had to flee an armed attack… Read more »
August 18, 2023
Congo-Kinshasa: 'Sometimes She Was Desperate' - How Survivors of Sexual Violence in the DRC Are Healing With the Help of UNFPA's Frontline Workers
NORTH KIVU PROVINCE - "I was going to fetch firewood from the forest to cook food for myself and my six children, when I came across armed men." Read more »
January 27, 2023
Malawi: Hacked With a Machete By Her Husband, Young Woman Gets Justice With Spotlight Initiative Support
Anna Salima, 24, has painful memories of her two marriages. With her first marriage, it took her just a week to realize she had married the wrong man. Yet she stayed for five… Read more »
November 11, 2022
Africa: Global Quest to End FGM By 2030 'Needs All Hands On Deck'
UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation is acelerating efforts to end FGM Read more »
July 28, 2022
Africa: Girl Defies Stigma of Rape and Resulting Motherhood to Pursue Her Dream of Being a Lawyer
NGAZIDJA, Moroni, Comoros - After school, Mariama* was invited over one day by a man who was well known in the neighbourhood. "I followed him into his house. I did not know that he… Read more »
June 17, 2022
Africa: International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
When wars begin, so does the terror and devastation of sexual violence. The bodies of women and girls become battlefields. Rape is used as a weapon of war just as surely as the… Read more »