Women in war zones were also increasingly suffering from restricted access to healthcare, the report said. According to UN data, about 500 women and girls in conflict-affected countries died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth every day in the year. By the end of 2023, nearly...
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BEIRUT, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Over 614 million women and girls live in conflict-affected places worldwide, a number that has increased by 50 percent since 2017, said the United Nations system in Lebanon in a statement on Friday. "From the Middle East to Haiti, Sudan, Myanmar, Ukraine, Af...
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Women who have experienced sexual violence in conflict need help to get their lives back on track in the form of compensation for the loss of land and livelihoods caused by fighting, as well as psychological support, according to Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka,
If women marry sooner, ceteris paribus, reasonably, their lifetime fertility will raise and contribute to population growth (Onagoruwa & Wodon, 2018). Anticipating similar scenarios is key for post-conflict reconstruction strategies, development, and resource allocation (Duflo, 2005; Thiede et al...
Hamdayet, Sudan –More evidence of sexual violence being used as a deliberate weapon of war is emerging fromEthiopia’s northern Tigray region, where an armed conflict has been raging for months. Women are being gang-raped, drugged and held hostage, according to medical records and testimonies...
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The conflict has also brought2.9 million internally displaced personsto northwestern Syria and those hospitals are not fit to cope with the needs of a much bigger population. Shortages in prenatal medicines and in beds for pregnant patients have led to some of these women not ge...
of women, half its population. Following the Taliban’s ouster, Afghan women worked hard to reverse the damage wrought by more than two decades of a civil war that deprived them of the limited progress towards gender equality experienced in earlier times. As a result of interna- ...