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14 April 2021
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Some of the most persistent barriers to bodily autonomy involve stereotypes, assumptions and misconceptions about bodily autonomy.
13 April 2021
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When Nabila, 23, fell in love with the young man next door, their romance was destined to be complicated.
12 April 2021
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Mónika Zsúnyi, 26, can do many extraordinary things. Living in Temerin, Serbia, she has an advanced degree in applied mathematics and spends her time doing 3D modelling. She is an avid reader and community organizer.... Read more
9 April 2021
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Forty-two deaths. Dozens missing. More than 10,000 newly homeless. Impassable roads. Power blackouts. Rescue attempts requiring excavators and cranes. This is the devastating aftermath for Timor-Leste, an island nation... Read more
6 April 2021
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In a win for inclusion, a reproductive health publication for women with disabilities has been published in Braille for the visually impaired.
1 April 2021
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Often heard throughout the global pandemic is that essential workers cannot work from home. But the world’s worst humanitarian crisis calls for extraordinary measures. In a country ravaged by conflict, where only half... Read more
29 March 2021
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Even with the global pandemic raging, Lucía García says she feels more prepared for childbirth, and better supported, than she did before.
26 March 2021
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Ambovombe is a landlocked district in southern Madagascar, where only about half of health facilities are accessible year-round because of poor roads and challenging terrain. And even if one could get there, the cost of... Read more
25 March 2021
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“It was the morning of a normal working day before fighting escalated close to the hospital. I heard a mother screaming at the gate,” midwife Shrook Khalid Saeed told UNFPA this week at the Al Shaab Hospital in the... Read more
24 March 2021
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Farina*, 50, in Sudan’s Blue Nile State, cannot remember how long ago she developed an obstetric fistula, a devastating childbirth injury that causes chronic incontinence, infections and, often, ostracism from the... Read more