Women in Crisis

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Fifty Syrian women tailors produce over 4,500 school uniforms and 1,000 maternal kits every year.

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The ��Oases�� centres bring women together to break the isolation of camp life. They also offer space and supplies to develop livelihoods and meet basic household needs. Alaa�� produces beautiful tiled mosaics, building on a tradition she brought from Syria.

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Sessions to raise awareness of the perils of early marriage give women refugees new knowledge as well as a heightened sense of empowerment and self worth.

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A literacy class by the Jordanian Women's Union is open to both refugee and vulnerable Jordanian women, helping to ease potential tensions between the two groups.

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Despite displacement, women in refugee camps in Cameroon maintain traditional ��women��s�� roles.

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Hawa, 23, was eight months pregnant when her husband, father and brother were killed in the fighting in Central African Republic.

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A seamstress by trade, Yaya Dia Adama stitches dresses at a camp centre dedicated to helping women get their lives back on track.

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Nene Daouda, 38, lost her husband to war, and one of her five children to illness.

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A groupd of women in the Gado refugee camp

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Luscie, 32, fled with her eight children, ending up at the Lusenda camp.

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Women at the camp learn new agricultural skills to improve productivity and cultivate a variety of crops.

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At one of the camp��s Safe Haven centres, women gather to sell excess crops.

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Celestine leads a dance performance organized by youth in Safe Haven centres.

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Women attending the dance performance take a moment to laugh together and enjoy new friends.

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Shanta (left) would normally be celebrating the birth of her new baby, but instead was crowded into a tiny temporary shelter with 12 family members.

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Sujita helped her five-year-old son, Jenif, walk through rubble in a destroyed area of Kathmandu.

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Aftershocks and fear of returning to her home left Sandrasoba, 34, coping by cooking rice outside for her elderly aunt and young daughter.

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The home of Pungadevi Dangol, 49, was destroyed by the earthquake.

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Social mobilizers like Rita Dhakal offered advice and an empathetic ear to earthquake survivors at special women��s centres.

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Bishnu Maya Dangal, 73, and her husband, 74, were barely surviving in the wake of the earthquake.

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A group of women at an information session on Ebola

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A woman campaign volunteer gives a demonstration on proper handwashing.

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Ebola information cards used simple language and graphics, overcoming barriers related to knowledge and literacy, which are higher among women.

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For its work in leading efforts to reach out to women, including through activities across the UN system, UN Women received the Presidential Award from the Government of Sierra Leone.

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Date:

9 March �C 16 April 2017

This photo exhibition proves that humanitarian assistance is far more effective when it reaches and empowers women who, rather than helpless victims, are vital to recovery.

The exhibition was organized by UN Women. It was endorsed by the Permanent Mission of Japan to the 51�Թ�.

Photographers: Za��atari refugee camp, Jordan: UN Women/Christopher Herwig, 2015, Ngam and Gado refugee camps, Cameroon: UN Women/Ryan Brown, 2016, Lusenda camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo: UN Women/Catianne Tijerina, 2015 Nepal: UN Women/Narendra Shrestha, 2015; UN Women/Vlad Sokhin, 2015; UN Women/Samir Jung Thapa, 2015; and UN Women/Piyavit Thongsa-Ard, 2015, Sierra Leone: UN Women/Emma Vincent, 2015

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