Women's health
- 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…
- Cervical cancer, Global development, Global health, Health, HPV vaccine, Pakistan, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, Women's health, World news
‘One jab will do the job’: Pakistan begins rollout of HPV vaccine to millions of girls
Despite vaccination hesitancy, the end may be in sight for cervical cancer, which kills 64% of women with the …
- Child marriage, Global development, Pakistan, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's health, World news
Pakistan sends ‘important signal’ of hope in a gloomy world of pushbacks on women’s rights
The city of Islamabad has moved to ban child marriage, which politicians say is a mark of the country bucking …
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global health, Human rights, Law, Society, South and Central Asia, Women under the Taliban, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies
The need for women to be accompanied by a man in public is blocking access to healthcare and contributing to s…
- Afghanistan, Culture, France, Middle East and North Africa, Society, Taliban, Television, Television & radio, Women, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘It’s a continuation of hope’: Paris-based TV station provides a lifeline for women in Afghanistan
Begum TV beams educational and entertainment shows into homes of women living under strict Taliban ruleFrom a …
- Afghanistan, Global development, Health, Life and style, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Midwifery, Nursing, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Taliban move to ban women training as nurses and midwives ‘an outrageous act of ignorance’
Afghan students and activists condemn halt to medical courses amid warnings of women dying from lack of health…
- Afghanistan, Education, Global development, Global education, Global health, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school
Barred from school for 1,000 days, girls in Afghanistan face forced marriage, violence and isolation with no e…
- Child labour, Dalits, Employment, Global development, Global health, India, Law, Malnutrition, Migration and development, Society, South and Central Asia, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns
Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access heal…
- Cervical cancer, Global development, Global health, Health, India, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, Women's health, World news
India gets its own HPV vaccine to stop 70,000 women dying of cervical cancer a year
It has taken 18 years for India to produce its own affordable version to tackle the country’s second-biggest c…
- Africa, Americas, Bangladesh, Brazil, Ecuador, Global development, Global health, India, Kenya, Life and style, Menstruation, Society, South and Central Asia, South Sudan, Women, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Me and my menopause’: a view from women around the world
Millions of women are being let down by lack of support during and after menopause. We asked six, from Brazil …
- Abortion, Afghanistan, Africa, Aid, Foreign policy, Global development, Health, Humanitarian response, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Middle East and North Africa, Politics, Society, Somalia, South and Central Asia, Syria, UK news, Women, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news, Yemen
Women’s health at risk from UK aid cuts, Foreign Office warned
Thousands more women will be forced into unsafe abortions and die in pregnancy and childbirth, ministers toldH…
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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…
- Doctors, Global development, Global health, Health, India, Life and style, Menstruation, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's health, World news
‘Hell on earth’: India’s taboos around women’s pain leave endometriosis sufferers in agony
Despite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million …
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Japan approves abortion pill for the first time
Health ministry gives green light for two-step treatment to end pregnancies up to nine weeksThe abortion pill …
- Bangladesh, Cervical cancer, Global development, Health, South and Central Asia, Women's health, World news
‘Time we put an end to it’: the Bangladeshi women fighting their silent killer
A group of Bangladesh’s health workers are working to reach women in some of the country’s most isolated place…