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RSSIn times of complex crises, when normality is shattered by the brutal consequences of an all-out war that leaves no one safe and forces scores of people to displace, women and girls become extremely exposed to all kinds of risks.
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For last year’s International Women’s Day, we spoke with Ingeborg Hasli, a woman at the forefront of European Civil Protection operations. She exemplifies the ideas of perseverance, confidence determination in the face of real dangers and hardships.
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Muna lost one of her legs at the age of 3. After the war in Syria broke out, her family left for Türkiye so she could get a new prosthetic leg. Now, at 23-years-old, Muna works as a physiotherapist at the very EU-funded centre where she received her artificial limb.
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Riya Moni is putting her makeup on. She is not afraid of being caught or humiliated anymore – her makeup is her transgression.
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Bangladesh’s southern district of Cox’s Bazar hosts hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
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Mawot Deng Achok’s journey is a remarkable testament to the transformative power of support and care for children with disabilities.
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- Field blog
For the past 11 years, Syria’s conflict has taken a massive toll on every Syrian, particularly women and girls.
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In Niger, ongoing conflict has left 3.8 million people in need. Since 2019, attacks in Diffa region have escalated, leaving children struggling to attend school.
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These schoolgirls in Afghanistan are determined to get an education, no matter the obstacles.
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- Field blog
The conflict in northern Mozambique has resulted in more than 800,000 people fleeing their homes in search of safety.
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There’s one thing that Abari cannot stand: being underestimated. “I want to do everything that the people that can see are doing,”
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Erwin Barreto Vazquez was 21 years old when a car crash left him paralysed from the waist down in 2005, in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
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- Photo story
For millions of women around the world, gender-based violence is a daily, ugly reality.
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Rehman* was married off to an abusive man at age 15. “During our year of marriage, I lived a very hard life full of violence and abuse,” she says now living as a displaced person in the governorate of Hajjah.
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