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Survivor-centred and trauma-informed services are crucial to empower gender-based violence survivors, according to a UN study

This week Williston will be the home for several events to educate on a growing issue in the Williston Community: Domestic Abuse.

Teenage pregnancies in the Upper East Region, reduced marginally at the end of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023. The region, at the end of last year, recorded 14.2 per cent of teenage pregnancies as against 15.4 per cent and 15.2 per cent at the end of 2020 and…

The Japanese government has pledged more than US$830,000 to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to implement the Safer Cities: Interventions against Covid-19 project, which focuses on water, sanitation and hygiene and the protection of communities at risk.

“The soldiers were shooting us from behind as we ran away in the forest. Some girls were raped and beaten. When we got caught , the police made us sleep

“The soldiers were shooting us from behind as we ran away in the forest. Some girls were raped and beaten. When we got caught [in a neighbouring country], the police made us sleep next to a toilet. We had to beg them for food,” shares Alem Kifle* about her migration journey. “When you are an […]

As the COVID-19 pandemic swept through Ethiopia, the country’s already high unemployment rate increased and travel restrictions obstructed safe migration pathways for thousands of Ethiopians. In a desperate attempt to provide for their families, many turned to people smugglers who promised jobs. For Amen Kifle, her journey ended with three months of imprisonment in a foreign country before she was deported back home.

fundsforNGOs UNDP Call for Proposals: Operating Women Protection Center (WPC) in Afghanistan 165SHARES Operating Women Protection Center (WPC) in Afghanistan. Women Protection Center are safe shelters for survivors of violence and their children that provide vital essential services. The services provided in the WPCs include 24/7 free safe shelter, legal aid, healthcare, education (basic literacy and numeracy), vocational training (catering services, handicraft classes, computer, and English cl...

And for the people across the country its not a game. you see the picture in the rose garden you realize who it is that is celebrating this and then hear that its the 13 white boys, sorry to say it that way, that are going to be doing this in the senate. i am very concerned. we lost the essential services package in the house so that pregnancy is not -- delivering a baby, having maternal ben if is is no longer an essential benefit. mental health, substance abuse. these are real issues in everyda...