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Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women's Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Pictured: Ayesha Khatun, 28, an outreach worker for the Multi-Purpose Women’s Centre, visits women and girls in their homes and encourages them to come to the Centre. Once, Ayesha reached out to an adolescent girl who was interested to go to the Centre and learn new skills, but her father refused to allow his daughter to step out of her home. Ayesha managed to negotiate with the father and convinced him to allow his daughter to visit the Centre. As of March 2018 there are 21 women employed as Community Outreach Members with the Centre.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: A woman receives health counseling at the Women's Center in Balukhali camp on 5 March 2018. As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women's Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Women work together on a tailoring project at the Women's Center in Balukhali camp on 5 March 2018. As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Senuara, 17, works on a tailoring project at the Women's Center in Balukhali camp March 6, 2018. As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: At the Women's Center in Balukhali camp March 6, 2018: Noor Nahar, now 35, left her home in Bolibazar, Myanmar some 28 years ago. She was just a child at the time and had hoped to return to Myanmar one day. Now she lives in the Kutupalong registered camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and has decided to support other Rohingya women refugees by teaching them tailoring and motivating them to learn new skills. Her story reveals the protracted nature of the Rohingya refugee crisis and shows the need for sustained services for women, such as those provided by a UN Women-supported programme, so that they are able to support themselves and each other.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Noor Nahar, From Where I Stand: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/6/from-where-i-stand...

Gender Equality in Humanitarian Action: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2018/6/em...

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Balukhali camp March 6, 2018. Noor Nahar, now 35, left her home in Bolibazar, Myanmar some 28 years ago. She was just a child at the time and had hoped to return to Myanmar one day. Now she lives in the Kutupalong registered camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and has decided to support other Rohingya women refugees by teaching them tailoring and motivating them to learn new skills. Her story reveals the protracted nature of the Rohingya refugee crisis and shows the need for sustained services for women, such as those provided by a UN Women-supported programme, so that they are able to support themselves and each other.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Noor Nahar, From Where I Stand: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/6/from-where-i-stand...

Gender Equality in Humanitarian Action: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2018/6/em...

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Senuara, 17, works on a tailoring project at the Women's Center in Balukhali camp March 6, 2018. As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Balukhali camp March 6, 2018. Noor Nahar, now 35, left her home in Bolibazar, Myanmar some 28 years ago. She was just a child at the time and had hoped to return to Myanmar one day. Now she lives in the Kutupalong registered camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and has decided to support other Rohingya women refugees by teaching them tailoring and motivating them to learn new skills. Her story reveals the protracted nature of the Rohingya refugee crisis and shows the need for sustained services for women, such as those provided by a UN Women-supported programme, so that they are able to support themselves and each other.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Noor Nahar, From Where I Stand: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/6/from-where-i-stand...

Gender Equality in Humanitarian Action: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2018/6/em...

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Balukhali camp March 6, 2018. Noor Nahar, now 35, left her home in Bolibazar, Myanmar some 28 years ago. She was just a child at the time and had hoped to return to Myanmar one day. Now she lives in the Kutupalong registered camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and has decided to support other Rohingya women refugees by teaching them tailoring and motivating them to learn new skills. Her story reveals the protracted nature of the Rohingya refugee crisis and shows the need for sustained services for women, such as those provided by a UN Women-supported programme, so that they are able to support themselves and each other.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Noor Nahar, From Where I Stand: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/6/from-where-i-stand...

Gender Equality in Humanitarian Action: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2018/6/em...

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Zara is a 54-year-old widow with nine children under her care.

She provides for her family by rearing cattle and running a small business selling sugar, tea, and oil.

Along with other parents in her community, Zara attends IRC sessions targeted towards caregivers.

These sessions form part of the programme receiving EU support.

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The ability of adults living in times of conflict and displacement to provide nurturing care for their children may be hampered by their own experiences of trauma, compounded by economic hardship and social isolation.

For these reasons, the sessions teach parenting skills like positive discipline, tips on how to provide emotional support to their children, and stress management so to maintain healthy environments at home.

Other parents help in community engagement on the importance of education.

They do home visits when some children miss school to raise awareness among parents.

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The Isibindi programme also creates safe spaces in the local area where children can play and get advice and counselling. The safe park sessions are held three times a week and run by trained Child and Youth Care workers that children can confide in about issues of violence they are facing in their lives.

As an Isibindi Child and Youth Care worker explains, “Where drugs and alcohol are involved, violence is often involved. So on a Saturday morning children can come down to the safe park and feel safe. It’s also the time that we as Child and Youth Care Workers identify children in need. This is a place where you can see if a child has been abused. It’s a place where a child can feel free to come and talk to us.”

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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As of January 2016, 243,750 people had fled the violence in Central African Republic (CAR) and become refugees in Cameroon.

UN Women Cameroon supports economic and social rehabilitation for vulnerable women and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in seven refugee camps in three regions of the country.

Pictured: UN Women staff and partners hold a community meeting for women at the Gado-Badzere refugee camp.

Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

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Like all Isibindi Child and Youth Care Workers, Lazola is from the local community and works as a volunteer (on a small allowance) with children in their own homes. She starts the day early, visiting Bongile and other children to make sure they are fed, bathed, clothed and ready for school.

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Twenty-two-year-old Minara Begum with her child in Balukhali camp on 5 March 2018. Minara Begum is an outreach worker for the Multi-Purpose Women’s Centre. Minara has helped pregnant women reach relief distribution points and carried relief items for them. She has learned to speak up and now presents the issues of other Rohingya women refugees to the authorities in charge of the day-to-day management of the camp.

As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: A toilet in the Balukhali camp on 5 March 2018. To avoid open bathing and defecation, many women and girls use make-shift toilets inside their sheds, reduce their food and water intake, and restrict their movements during menstruation.

As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Women have bathing space and clothes washing facility at the Women's Centre—an important service in an area where safe and private spaces for women and girls is scarce. It also provides women and girls who are otherwise confined and isolated in their homes, a safe space to relax, learn new skills and socialize with other women.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: A scene at the Women's Center in Balukhali camp March 6, 2018. As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women's Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Gender Equality in Humanitarian Action: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2018/6/em...

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Women in the reception area at the Women's Center in Balukhali camp 5 March, 2018. As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Women work on an embroidery project at the Women's Center in Balukhali camp 5 March, 2018. As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: A woman walks in the Balukhali camp 5 March 2018. Women’s mobility is an important factor to consider within the camp. Traditionally, Rohingya women are expected to wear a burqa when leaving their home or shelter. In the camps, women often share a burqa among themselves to access public spaces. Some have to wait for their turn to borrow a neighbour’s burqa to even step outside their shelter.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Lazola Bibi, 24, is a Child and Youth Care Worker working with the Isibindi programme (meaning ‘courage’). She helps care for Bongile, 15, a young girl with disabilities living in Xola Naledi in the Western Cape province. Girls with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to abuse and rape.

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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“Violence is caused by drugs and alcohol. When you’re stressed, or you’ve done something wrong,” says Themba. “So to help people is to be kind and advise them on how to solve their stress, because you can’t run away from your problem. You must face your problem.”

Themba now volunteers as a “Monitor” which means he looks out for younger boys getting into drugs and encourages them to go to rehab. “I’ve told Nozuko that I’ve changed. She’s been excited by that. I now tell other young boys my story and what it is to change. I am an example to them,” explains Themba.

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Women and children gather water in Balukhali camp March 6, 2018.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Tigray crisis: refugee women share their story by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

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60-year-old Berhan fled from Mai Kadra, located in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

She was captured and sent to prison for 2 months when the conflict started.

Along with other Tigrayans, she now lives in Gedaref camp in Sudan.

After being let out of prison, she began to walk through the wilderness surrounding her hometown, hoping to eventually end up on the road going towards where her family lived.

A young boy, who found her wandering in the wrong direction, helped her. He began guiding her to the border with Sudan.

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Save the Girl, Educate the Girl.

Violence against women and girls is everyone's problem. It brings down an entire society. We are ALL touched by femicide in India. Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The survival of girls is determined by a patriarchal politics of wealth control.

In recent years, the voices of survivors and activists, through campaigns such as #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #BalanceTonPorc and others, have reached a crescendo that cannot be silenced any more.

Join the UNiTE Campaign’s Orange the World: #HearMeToo! Share your photos, messages and videos showing how you are participating in the campaign at facebook.com/SayNO.UNiTE and twitter.com/SayNO_UNiTE using #orangetheworld and #HearMeToo.

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As of January 2016, 243,750 people had fled the violence in Central African Republic (CAR) and become refugees in Cameroon.

UN Women Cameroon supports economic and social rehabilitation for vulnerable women and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in seven refugee camps in three regions of the country.

Pictured: UN Women staff and partners hold a community meeting for women at the Gado-Badzere refugee camp.

Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

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Women working for a safer South Africa by DFID - UK Department for International Development

UK aid has supported the Isibindi team of the National Association of Child Care Workers through UNICEF to help protect and prevent violence against vulnerable children. The Government of South Africa is now planning to roll out the Isibindi programme to many more remote areas across the country.

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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“Violence is caused by drugs and alcohol. When you’re stressed, or you’ve done something wrong,” says Themba. “So to help people is to be kind and advise them on how to solve their stress, because you can’t run away from your problem. You must face your problem.”

Themba now volunteers as a “Monitor” which means he looks out for younger boys getting into drugs and encourages them to go to rehab. “I’ve told Nozuko that I’ve changed. She’s been excited by that. I now tell other young boys my story and what it is to change. I am an example to them,” explains Themba.

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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“If we can just protect the children, make them feel safe and comfortable around you, they can then speak to you,” explains Lazola. “You know, ‘My Daddy is hitting my Mommy at home.’ Then you as an individual can help solve that. You can help that child.”

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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Trusting Nozuko with his problems by DFID - UK Department for International Development

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Themba found he could trust and confide in Nozuko, an Isibindi Child and Youth Care Worker, about his problems.

“When I told her my situation and my problems, she advised me when I have a problem come talk with her. So from then on, I tell her my personal things, my secrets. So she advised me to go to rehab and change my life,” says Themba.

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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Bringing families together by DFID - UK Department for International Development

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Themba’s relationship with his mother (right) had broken down because she was struggling to care for both her children and grandchildren. Nozuko helped to bridge that gap and bring them together.

Moefeeda Salie-Kagee, one of the Child Protection Specialists for Isibindi explains, “Child and Youth Care Workers will tell you that the most important part of their work is the relationship they have with families. In that relationship so many things are possible. That trust, when you’re feeling like you can’t go to anybody else.”

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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Dreams for the future by DFID - UK Department for International Development

Themba is now studying masonry and civil engineering at college. Nozuko helps him with his homework when he needs it and is always there for support. “She advises me to be an example to the other children and to show them the right way,” says Themba.

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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Breaking the cycle of violence by DFID - UK Department for International Development

The legacy of apartheid, rising unemployment and the increasing gap between rich and poor fuels violence against women and girls, drug abuse and gang culture in South Africa. Around one in three registered sexual offences in the country are against children. Protecting children, especially orphans and those affected by HIV and AIDS, is critical for breaking the cycle of violence.

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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A brighter future by DFID - UK Department for International Development

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Bongile and Lozola play hopscotch outdoors. Bongile has a much brighter future with Lazola’s support. Before Lazola was caring for her, Bongile wandered off one day and was hit by a passing car. Now she can play safely outdoors and Lazola advises on simple therapeutic activities giving her a much fuller life.

Background

In March 2013 the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women will meet to discuss how to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls.

This International Women's Day, help demand action by sending a message to global leaders that it's time to put a stop to this worldwide injustice.

UK aid is working in 21 countries to address physical and sexual violence against women and girls and will be supporting 10 million women and girls with improved access to security and justice services by 2015.

Find out more about how UK aid is helping to end violence against women at www.dfid.gov.uk/violence-against-women-and-girls

For more information about the Isibindi programme visit UNICEF South Africa

Pictures: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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Mexico: safe spaces for children on the move by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

Juli left Honduras with her pregnant mother, her aunt, and her younger sister. They decided to leave to reunite with her grandmother who lives in the United States and whom she had only met on video call.

They first took a bus to reach Mexico and then jumped on 'the beast' – la bestia –, a goods train that crosses the entire country from south to north. They managed to reach the border town of Tijuana, where they settled in a shelter waiting to obtain permission to cross the border.

The Philippines: providing emergency assistance to families affected by armed conflict by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

In response to the situation, the European Union supports a consortium of humanitarian organisations, which include Oxfam International, Action Against Hunger and CARE International, in providing urgent assistance to address the most pressing needs of the displaced people in evacuation sites in affected areas.

Bangladesh - Rohingya women in refugee camps share stories of loss and hopes of recovery by UN Women

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Balukhali camp March 6, 2018. Noor Nahar, now 35, left her home in Bolibazar, Myanmar some 28 years ago. She was just a child at the time and had hoped to return to Myanmar one day. Now she lives in the Kutupalong registered camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and has decided to support other Rohingya women refugees by teaching them tailoring and motivating them to learn new skills. Her story reveals the protracted nature of the Rohingya refugee crisis and shows the need for sustained services for women, such as those provided by a UN Women-supported programme, so that they are able to support themselves and each other.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Noor Nahar, From Where I Stand: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/6/from-where-i-stand...

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Children's clothes produced by women trained in tailoring at the Women's Center in Balukhali camp. As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Cameroon: safe healing and learning spaces for displaced children by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

“I want all children to go to school, especially girls who are told that they should stay home,” says Anastasie, one of the out-of-school children attending classes run by the IRC with EU support, in Cameroon’s Far North region.

Antastasie is 10 years old and lives in a village with her family. She dreams of one day becoming a teacher, and believes all children have the right to an education.

Empowering Connections: Solidarity in Safe Spaces by Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin

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Protecting migrants and children on the move in Mexico by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

Among them, there are thousands of unaccompanied minors fleeing from gang threats and recruitment, extortion, human trafficking and violence. Most of them try to reach the U.S and Canada to rejoin their families, but for many, the journey ends in Mexico.

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Young women and girls attend an information session about menstrual hygiene at the Women's Center in Balukhali camp on 5 March 2018. As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Women have bathing space and clothes washing facility at the Centre—an important service in an area where safe and private spaces for women and girls is scarce. It also provides women and girls who are otherwise confined and isolated in their homes, a safe space to relax, learn new skills and socialize with other women.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Mexico: safe spaces for children on the move by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

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OCHA observed an overall increase in violence and insecurity in the Northern Triangle during the pandemic. Criminal groups took advantage of the lockdown to tighten their control over territories and communities, killing their opponents and increasing extortions.

Border closures and health risks have led many to postpone their journey, but those who had no other option to save their lives had to take the risk.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, most visa and admission processes have been halted: courts are not conducting hearings for health reasons and vulnerable refugees and migrants are forced to wait for months before receiving an appointment to follow up their case.

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