カテゴリー: Reproductive rights
George Papachristou and Gigih Yudhistira offer some hope in response to a report on how the Taliban’s ban on birth control is affecting Afghan women The suffering described in your article (Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancie…
I live in a country where a woman’s value is often measured by motherhood, but for me and many others fulfilment simply looks differentI booked an online appointment with a gynaecologist in Karachi during the pandemic. I had a severe urinary tract infe…
Mahnoor Omer hopes the case will put public pressure on the government to make sanitary products affordable in a country where they cost too much for most womenFor a 25-year-old, seeing her name written on official papers at Lahore’s high court was dau…
Since the country legalised abortion, maternal mortality rates have plummeted. But US-funded programmes and a Trump victory could reverse that progress, warn experts“One, two, three,” says Soman Rai slowly, to the click of his fingers. “Every three sec…
The move is a major policy shift in country’s male-dominated parliament and brings Japan into line with more than 90 other countriesJapan is to permit the sale of emergency contraceptives without prescription on a trial basis, weeks after it approved t…
Reports that fighters have threatened those issuing birth control medicines come as Afghan midwives and activists warn of impact on women’s health and rightsTaliban fighters have stopped the sale of contraceptives in two of Afghanistan’s main cities, c…
UNFPA head urges countries to focus on helping women, children and marginalised people most vulnerable to demographic changeThe world must not engage in “population alarmism” as the number of people living on Earth nears 8 billion, a senior UN official…
The cost of reproductive care and the discrimination we face leaves my community effectively excluded from any gains madeSitting in my second-year law class as Roe v Wade was overturned, I watched young women hail India’s abortion legislation. My heart…
Automatic addition of ex-husband as father on document within 300 days of divorce to be scrapped Japan is set to reform a 19th century law that automatically registers a woman’s ex-husband as the father of a child born within 300 days of their divorce….
Analysis: plan to reduce abortions as birthrates plunge draws comparisons to The Handmaid’s TaleFar-reaching proposals from Beijing on “women’s development” have sparked concern over a pledge to reduce abortions, with feminists and academics pointing t…
Low priority for reproductive health during lockdown leaves millions unable to access contraception or safe terminationsSadhna Gupta* discovered she was pregnant just after India imposed a crippling lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.The 21-year-o…