In crisis-hit Venezuela, where the maternity wards are often death traps
Infant mortality went up by a third in a year, and maternal mortality by 65 per cent, according to the latest figures
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'Today we finally made history': Argentines celebrate as Senate passes landmark abortion bill
The ruling could see a wider shift in conservative Latin America where there are growing calls for greater reproductive rights for women
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‘We know it’s the work of quack doctors’: Pandemic fans the flames of backstreet abortions in Kenya
Anecdotal reports suggest teenage pregnancies are soaring in Kenya, resulting in unsafe late-term terminations and abandoned babies
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No longer an 'impossible dream': world pledges to wipe out cervical cancer
The lives of five million women could be saved by 2050 in a world-first commitment to eliminate a cancer
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International aid should put its money where its mouth is when it comes to women’s grassroots activism
Donors are happy to use African women as the 'faces' of fundraising drives, but almost never directly fund the groups they represent
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Month-long ‘cutting season’ in west Kenya sees an estimated 2,800 girls subjected to FGM
Activists have seen at least 100 girls a day paraded through streets as dancing crowds celebrate a ‘successful’ procedure
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'The pandemic sucker punched us': how activists are tackling domestic violence in Kenya's lockdown
From putting support helplines on hand sanitisers to paying boda bike drivers to blast awareness messages, campaigners have adapted quickly
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The 'perfect environment': how FGM is set to surge during the pandemic
'Life has been turned upside down and people are turning back to old beliefs,' one activist told The Telegraph
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‘I want to leave but I’m scared’: Pandemic increases risk of violence for Gulf’s domestic workers
Lockdown measures, put in place to stem the spread of the virus, have put already vulnerable domestic maids under more pressure
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Three-quarters of refugee women in Africa report rise in domestic violence during Covid-19
'Reducing exposure to the virus increased exposure to violence for women and girls'
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Half of the world's children face violence, first report of its kind finds
One billion children experience violence every year, and Covid-19 lockdowns will make things worse, report says
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Women in Ecuador sending emoji coded pleas for help as domestic violence 'skyrockets' in lockdown
Gender-based violence already hit almost 1 in 3 women in Ecuador, and the situation has only worsened in the pandemic
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Stillbirth leaves millions suffering in silence – we must do more to prevent it and end the stigma
Every day 5,400 stillbirths occur all over the world, but most are preventable
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Children with older sisters in developing countries do better, study suggests
But the authors warned that the girls themselves deserved childhoods, too
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Month-long ‘cutting season’ in west Kenya sees an estimated 2,800 girls subjected to FGM
Activists have seen at least 100 girls a day paraded through streets as dancing crowds celebrate a ‘successful’ procedure
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Three-quarters of refugee women in Africa report rise in domestic violence during Covid-19
'Reducing exposure to the virus increased exposure to violence for women and girls'
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UK lags behind other countries on gender pay gap reporting, report finds
Other countries analysed have much more robust systems in place for tackling the gender pay gap
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Bangladesh’s belated MeToo movement: how women are standing up against a culture of violence
Rising fury against sexual violence sparks mass protests – could it be the catalyst for change?
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A ‘Handmaid’s Tale reality’: one in 130 women and girls around the world held in modern slavery
Gender 'stacks the odds' from cradle to grave with women making up nearly three quarters of victims of abuse and exploitation
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Two million pregnancies end in stillbirth every year, report finds
More than 40 per cent of all stillbirths occur during labour – a loss that could be avoided with access to timely and high-quality care
