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Alarm bells as US abortion ruling fuels rush on morning-after pill
AFP, Published on 21/07/2022
» WASHINGTON - When the US Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion, Julie Crowe went straight online to do some shopping. She ordered 10 packs of the emergency contraceptive pill known as Plan B for immediate delivery.
Abortion ban: one more obstacle faced by US servicewomen
AFP, Published on 27/06/2022
» WASHINGTON - Abortion bans enacted across America will be especially painful for women in the US military, one more hurdle they have to face in a man's world where sexual assault and unwanted pregnancies occur more often than in the rest of society.
UN: Half of global pregnancies unintended
AFP, Published on 30/03/2022
» Nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said Wednesday, warning that the war in Ukraine could further exacerbate what it called a "human rights crisis".
Pandemic inflames violence against women
AFP, Published on 23/11/2020
» PARIS - No country has been spared the coronavirus epidemic, nor the scourge of domestic violence, which has surged during lockdowns as the day marking such violence approaches on Wednesday.
Pandemic inflames violence against women
AFP, Published on 23/11/2020
» PARIS: No country has been spared the coronavirus epidemic, nor the scourge of domestic violence, which has surged during lockdowns as the day marking such violence approaches on Wednesday.
Indonesia's child bride problem
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 02/11/2020
» With proper sex education almost nonexistent, Indonesia's battle to reduce its high number of underage marriages resulting from unwanted teen pregnancies could be in vain, jeopardising a chance to seize the potential of its demographic dividend.
On-board toys, pregnancy tests await migrant mothers-to-be
AFP, Published on 08/08/2019
» ON BOARD THE OCEAN VIKING - The Ocean Viking is bound for the Libyan coast, and beside stocks of medicine and pregnancy kits, on-board midwife Marina is busy painting a turtle on the ship's migrant shelter.
Stigma or separation: The painful choice facing Myanmar's single mothers
AFP, Published on 13/11/2018
» THANLYIN (MYANMAR) - Eight months pregnant, shamed by her family and shunned by the father of her child, Aye Mar has accepted she will have to give up her baby to an orphanage in Myanmar, a country where single mothers are ostracised and deemed a "disgrace".
Venezuelan exiles turn to prostitution to feed families
AFP, Published on 25/10/2018
» CALAMAR (COLOMBIA) - Back in Venezuela, they were teachers, police officers and newspaper carriers, but were forced to flee their homeland in search of work and money to survive.
Final campaign push before bitter Irish abortion vote
AFP, Published on 25/05/2018
» DUBLIN - Activists made a final push for votes Thursday on the eve of a historic referendum on Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion, which has divided the staunchly Catholic nation.