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Millions of women worldwide rely on free contraceptives from aid programmes that have been plunged into turmoil since President Donald Trump gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development, a key global donor. Violence against women, maternal mortality and unplanned pregnancies would all increase, while menstrual hygiene and pregnancy-related care would suffer, Lydia Zigomo, regional director for the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA, says. Longer term, there will be more sexually transmitted infections and unsafe abortions. Child marriage and teen pregnancies could also rise as families fall into poverty. And there would be major disruptions in the supply chain for contraceptives and reproductive health medicines, Zigomo said. ?? Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/e2G__ugH ?? Farai Shawn Matiashe

Eight countries, including six in Africa, could run out of antiretroviral treatment for HIV in months due to the U.S. aid freeze. ?? Lucy L. Middleton writes for Context. ?? https://lnkd.in/ek4ucNNr

Despite losing most of the forest they have guarded for more than half a century, Ngata Toro Indigenous community in Central Sulawesi still vowed to protect nature. ?? Adi Renaldi reports. ?? https://lnkd.in/e-J-kME6

Every day, children in the West Bank face Israeli roadblocks, checkpoints and settler attacks on their way to school. Since Israel’s major operation in the West Bank began in January, these trips have become even more dangerous. Last year, 85 students were killed and 525 injured in Israeli military operations there. To make matters worse, the U.N. Palestinian relief agency UNRWA, which runs 96 schools in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, could be forced to stop its work following a ban on its operations on Israeli territory. ?? Nazih Osseiran reports. ?? https://lnkd.in/eagNvFfy

Sudanese refugees tell of torture, detention as they cross Libya, where EU funds are used to help stem migration. ?? Seán Columb ?? https://lnkd.in/eTbMtjmX

U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to slash most U.S. aid funding has plunged thousands of humanitarian programmes into uncertainty - and in Namibia, it could leave trans people without a doctor to go to. We travelled to Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, and the Atlantic port town of Walvis Bay to find out how the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, also known as PEPFAR, has protected one of the country's marginalised communities, and ask what will happen next. ?? Watch our new short documentary “How Trump’s HIV cuts hit trans Namibians” on our YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/eXhV3cmS ?? Enrique Anarte Lazo, Sadiya Ansari #USAID #PEPFAR

Decades of oil spills have devastated the environment in the Niger Delta, forcing fishermen and women to turn to other ways of making a living. For Faith, that meant getting into the illegal oil refinery business. We travelled to the heart of the Niger Delta to find out why those who endure the worst of oil’s environmental impacts are also helping to keep the business alive. ?? Watch the full documentary ‘Meet the illegal oil refiners of Nigeria’ on our YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eqsE7iE4 ?? Albert Han

???? ???? As a gay man in Iraq, Ali faced violence and sought refuge in the U.S. after he was arrested in 2023 on suspicion of romantic involvement with another man. It took him a year to win his coveted refugee status, but in January Ali arrived in Houston, with a bag of clothes and $120 in cash. Just days later Trump took and?suspended?the $2.8-billion U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, then froze the?federal money?that had been earmarked to help new refugees. ? ? Now Ali, and thousands like him, face an uncertain future. ?? Carey Biron reports. ?? https://lnkd.in/eagNvFfy?

Humane's Ai Pin and other AI wearables are difficult to recycle, threatening to worsen the world's global e-waste problem. ?? Adam Smith reports. ?? https://lnkd.in/dFfdUbCe

??? The election of Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry as president of the International Olympic Committee - the first woman and first African to take the job - could alter the future of transgender and intersex athletes in the Games. ?? Lucy L. Middleton writes for Context. ?? https://lnkd.in/ehdqSfcv