Youth say they need education and job skills to thrive in the modern world
The pandemic, cost-of-living crisis and the climate emergency are influencing responses to the largest-ever survey of young people Getting a good education and a job...
Category : Society
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 told Hundreds of thousands more women will face unsafe...
Twenty years ago, Africa’s women’s treaty set a path to equality. We must be ready for the next steps
The landmark Maputo protocol has led to huge gains in women’s rights, from abortion access to equal pay. But to go further will require political...
‘Gut-churning’: anger as Hungarian president addresses major women’s rights conference
Katalin Novák, an anti-abortionist and promoter of pro-natalist policies, spoke at the opening of the Women Deliver conference in Rwanda Delegates at a women’s rights...
Three arrested in Kenya as backlash grows over period strip-search
Police take action as activists, politicians and the company involved all condemn tactics used by managers investigating who put sanitary towel in wrong bin Three...
UK aid should not fund private hospitals in developing countries, says Oxfam
Development charity says patients denied treatment or held hostage until fees paid in private facilities in India and Kenya Private hospitals in India and Kenya...
Peru violated rights of 13-year-old girl repeatedly raped by father, UN rules
Authorities denied pregnant Indigenous girl her legal right to an abortion and ‘re-victimised’ her, UN child rights committee says Peru violated the rights of a...
Anguish as rape survivors in Sudan unable to access vital medication
Emergency contraception, HIV-prevention and abortion drugs are locked in a warehouse in Khartoum – leaving women to turn to desperate measures Rape survivors in the...
Aid agencies raise alarm as solo children cross Chad border to flee Sudan fighting
Unicef says ‘more and more unaccompanied children’ among thousands of refugees streaming across 1,000km-long border Hundreds of unaccompanied children have crossed the border from Sudan...
Lone renter in ‘David and Goliath’ row with Montreal developers
Carla White’s battle has shone a light on city’s lack of affordable new housing for those on low incomes A single tenant in a Montreal...
