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India Reports Its First Cases Of Zika Virus

India has reported its first three cases of the Zika virus, including two pregnant women who delivered healthy babies.Health Ministry officials said Sunday that the three p...

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Gender

They're Not Seen As Human Beings: Life For Unmarried Mothers In Tunisia

Tunisia is often hailed as a progressive Arab country, where, according to US human rights watchdog Freedom House, “women enjoy more social freedoms and legal rights ...

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Serena Williams Joins Long List Of Athletes Who Competed While Pregnant

Serena Williams found out she was expecting her first child just two days before the Australian Open. In a TED Talk interview with Gayle King this week, the tennis great re...

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Gender

Giving Birth In Air Strikes: The Life-Threatening Horrors Of Pregnancy In Yemen

Horeh was five months pregnant with her second child when an airstrike destroyed her uncle's house in the Amran Governorate in western Yemen. "It was very loud," the 30 yea...

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Health

Mobile Phones Hand-Hold Mothers Through Pregnancy

Tabassum, a pale fair young woman who resides in the slums of New Seemapuri on Delhi-Ghaziabad border, is all of twenty-four. She is already pregnant with her third baby. T...

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Gender

Melinda Gates: I Wouldn't Be Where I Am Today Without Contraceptives

Growing up in a Catholic household in Texas, I never would have guessed that I would one day travel around the world talking about the benefits of contraceptives. I certain...

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Health

Saving Babies' Lives By Carrying Them Like Kangaroos

Carmela Torres was 18 when she became pregnant for the first time. It was 1987 and she and her now-husband, Pablo Hernandez, were two idealistic young Colombians born in th...

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Gender

Opinion: Want to Empower Women Worldwide? Give Them Access to Contraceptives

Melinda Gates shares why she advocates for over 225 million women around the globe who still lack access to modern contraceptives. Like most women I know, I have used contr...

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Human Rights

Indian Women Seeing Abortions Beyond 20 Weeks Face Desperate Legal Struggles

On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed a woman from Mumbai who is 24 weeks pregnant to have an abortion because her foetus had anancephaly – a life threatening conditio...

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Human Rights

A Pregnant Pause And Child Rights

In the wake of the staggering prevalence of practicing overseas commercial surrogacy in India,the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 was proposed in Lok Sabha in the last we...

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