Growing up in Rawalpindi, a city adjacent to Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, Mahnoor Omer remembers the shame and anxiety she felt in school when she had periods. Going to the toilet with a sanitary pad was an act of stealth, like trying to cover up a crime. “I used to hideContinue Reading
Banjul, The Gambia – On A Rainy Morning in Early August, A Newborn Girl Suffering Severe vaginal Wounds Was Rushed to Banjul’s Bundung Maternal And Child Health Hospital. By The Time She was attented to, The Doctors Could Do Nothing – The Baby Had Bled To Death. The Gambian AuthoritiesContinue Reading
MARIUS BORG HOIBY FACES UP TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON AFTER BEING CHARGED WITH 32 CRIMINAL OFFENCES, INCLUDING RAPE. The Son of Norway’s Crown Princess has been charged with raping Four Women, Domestic Violence, Assault and Oher Crimes Following A Yearlong Police Investigation, According to Prosecutors. Marius Borg Hoiby, 28,Continue Reading
Bardiya, Nepal – Bali*, Unlike Most Girls Around Her, Never Liked to Sing and Dance. She Loved Cars and Dreamd of How It Would Feel To Wrap Her Fingers Around The Wheel and Leave Her Village Behind in The Rear-View Mirror. But Her Dream Was Cut Short On Her SixthContinue Reading
DEMONSTRATIONS FROM BUENOS AIRES TO LAGOS DEMAND JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF FEMICIDE AND URGE REFORM TO PROTECT Women. DEMONSTRATORS HAVE TAKEN TO THE STREETS ACROSS ASIA, AFRICA, EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS TO MARK International Women’s DayWith Many Demanding An End To Gender-Based Violence and INEQUALITY. In Cities Like Buenos Aires,Continue Reading
ISRAEL’S 15-MONTH WAR ON GAZA, AS well as severe restrictions it. humanitarian AID and Israeli Forces’ Attacks On Health facilitians and targeting of Healthcare Workershave led to “Life-Threatening Danger” for pregnant women and Babies, human rights watch (HRW) has said in a new report. LEAVE THE ONGOING CeasefireThe Precarous ConditionsContinue Reading
Tigray, Ethiopia – “I was angry all the time,” says Bezunesh, spinning wool in her small mud house in Bora, a remote district of deep valleys, sloping mountains and small terraced farms in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray. It has been a few years since the mother of eight, whoseContinue Reading
Sydney, Australia – Sam Hall, an Aboriginal woman from Ormiston in southeast Queensland, was 40 weeks pregnant when she felt her baby’s movements slow. She was already anxious about her son’s safety – earlier scans had found possible problems with her pregnancy, and her partner had genetic heart issues. ButContinue Reading
Johannesburg, South Africa – For more than a decade, Johanna Motlhamme has been fighting to get her family home back after it was sold from under her, leaving her and her four children without their rightful inheritance. The 74-year-old’s plight is one that has its roots in the racist lawsContinue Reading
Hospitals hit by 24-hour shutdown as protests demanding protection for health workers and condemning violence swell. Hundreds of thousands of Indian health workers and their supporters have launched a nationwide strike to protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor last week at a government hospital in theContinue Reading
