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Women & Girls speaks with Dr. Hassan Abdi of UNFPA and journalist Katie Arnold about how best to provide sexual and reproductive healthcare to Rohingya women and girls amid one of the world’s most desperate humanitarian crises.
In the Rohingya refugee camps of southern Bangladesh, women-only support centers run by volunteers offer a safe space for those who have survived violence during Myanmar’s brutal military campaign.
Women are still largely excluded from the ongoing peace process in Myanmar, but a growing women’s rights movement aims to tackle the persistent sexism that, they say, blocks women’s full participation.
The United Nations has documented shocking accounts of sexual violence, including gang rape, against Rohingya women and girls at the hands of Myanmar’s military. News Deeply spoke with a U.N. investigator about what she found when she talked to survivors.
Forced to live with their employers and often subjected to emotional abuse or worse, foreign domestic workers in Singapore can feel trapped. But a nonprofit shelter is working to help these women escape their situations and find new work where they are treated with dignity.
At around 200 deaths per 100,000 live births, Myanmar has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the region. As part of its plan to bring down those numbers, the government is giving women long-term contraception for free.
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