UNFPA is calling on donors to fund protection services so that it can scale up its mobile services to all who need them. Activities that economically empower women are also key to reducing violence.

Today, millions of women and girls living in war zones and disaster areas are being cast into darkness, without the care and protection they need to survive, let alone thrive. Their basic rights — from safe childbirth to protection from violence — are in peril as funding and support become increasingly scarce. Indeed, 60 per cent of preventable maternal deaths occur in crisis zones, while 1 in 5 women are at risk of gender-based violence. Don't let the lights go out on the hopes, the health and the futures of millions of women and girls.