Nearly half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030 – study
Stigma, lack of treatment and disproportionate rise of the disease in women draws comparisons with HIV epidemic An alarming rise in obesity in Africa has...
Category : Women’s health
International court rules against El Salvador in key abortion rights case
Court finds Central American country violated rights of a pregnant woman who was denied an abortion in 2013 The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR)...
UN rules forcible sterilizations of women in Peru ‘crime against humanity’
Country ordered to compensate victims of programme that affected more than 300,000 women in 1990s A UN committee has urged Peru to compensate women who...
‘Staggering’ rise in women with reproductive health issues near DRC cobalt mines – study
Investigation reveals reports of miscarriages, infections and birth defects among women and girls in mining communities Women and girls living in cobalt-mining communities in the...
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...
Rising temperatures causing distress to foetuses, study reveals
Climate crisis increases risks for subsistence farmers in Africa who usually work throughout pregnancy Rising temperatures driven by climate breakdown are causing distress to the...
Latin American feminists vow to protect abortion rights at home after shock US ruling
Women’s movements have fought hard to reverse anti-abortion laws in their countries and say it’s not the end for the US Reproductive rights activists across...
