Reproductive rights
- Afghanistan, Charities, Contraception and family planning, Reproductive rights, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Progress on family planning in Afghanistan is still possible | Letter
George Papachristou and Gigih Yudhistira offer some hope in response to a report on how the Taliban’s ban on b…
- Global development, Pakistan, Reproductive rights, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
I’m married, Pakistani – and I don’t want children. That doesn’t make me broken | Fizza Abbas
I live in a country where a woman’s value is often measured by motherhood, but for me and many others fulfilme…
- Global development, Global health, Law, Pakistan, Reproductive rights, South and Central Asia, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
The young lawyer taking Pakistan to court over its unfair ‘period tax’
Mahnoor Omer hopes the case will put public pressure on the government to make sanitary products affordable in…
- Abortion, Global development, Global health, Health, Nepal, Reproductive rights, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘One-man anti-abortion army’: shadow of US global gag rule looms over Nepal’s family planning services
Since the country legalised abortion, maternal mortality rates have plummeted. But US-funded programmes and a …
- Asia Pacific, China, Czech Republic, Fertility problems, Health, Internet, IVF, Population, Reproductive rights, Social media, Women
‘Society doesn’t want my kids’: China’s single women forced abroad to freeze their eggs
Calls grow for end to ban that means only married Chinese couples can access ‘social egg freezing’ servicesWhe…
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Japan approves trial sales of over-the-counter emergency contraceptives
The move is a major policy shift in country’s male-dominated parliament and brings Japan into line with more t…
- Afghanistan, Contraception and family planning, Global development, Health, Reproductive rights, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, World news
Taliban bans contraception calling use a ‘western conspiracy’
Reports that fighters have threatened those issuing birth control medicines come as Afghan midwives and activi…
- Global development, Global health, India, Migration and development, Population, Reproductive rights, Society, South and Central Asia, United Nations, World news
UN warns against alarmism as world’s population reaches 8bn milestone
UNFPA head urges countries to focus on helping women, children and marginalised people most vulnerable to demo…
- Abortion, Dalits, Feminism, Global development, Health, India, Inequality and development, Reproductive rights, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's health
Feminists in India applaud their abortion rights – but they don’t extend to Dalit women | Shreeja Rao
The cost of reproductive care and the discrimination we face leaves my community effectively excluded from any…
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Japan to reform 19th century law that puts ex-husband on child’s birth certificate
Automatic addition of ex-husband as father on document within 300 days of divorce to be scrapped Japan is set …
- Abortion, Asia Pacific, China, Health, Life and style, Reproductive rights, Society, Women, World news
Abortion pledge adds to scepticism over women’s rights in China
Analysis: plan to reduce abortions as birthrates plunge draws comparisons to The Handmaid’s TaleFar-reaching p…
- Global development, India, Reproductive rights, Society, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Women always take the brunt’: India sees surge in unsafe abortion
Low priority for reproductive health during lockdown leaves millions unable to access contraception or safe te…