News from category: Gender Issues
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More women are coming forward with stories of being sterilised
JOHANNESBURG, 30 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later …
Photo: IOM
More women are coming forward with stories of being sterilised
JOHANNESBURG, 30 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later …
Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …
Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …
Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …
Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …
Photo: Kate Thomas/IRIN
Children athte Gantauda kindergarten develop their motor skills on the balancing beam
GANTAUDA, 24 August 2010 (IRIN) – In the village of Gantauda, 90km from Guinea-Bissau’s capital, Bissau, a child’s third birthday is …
Photo: UNICEF Egypt/Pirozzi 2005
Longer-term effects of FGM include infections of the urinary and reproductive tracts, infertility and obstetric complications (file photo)
AWASH, 19 August 2010 (IRIN) – In the northeastern Ethiopian region of Afar, …
Photo: Siegfried Modola/IRIN
A street in the Somali capital Mogadishu. April 4, 2010. Mogadishu has not seen peace since 1991 when the functioning Somali government was overthrown
NAIROBI, 19 August 2010 (IRIN) – Bombs, mortar shells …
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Community workers say a return to old school values can be achieved through communication rather than violence
MKINGA, 18 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Regina Joseph was beaten up by a group of …
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
The use of trusted peers in HIV prevention has been shown to increase condom use by sex workers
NAIROBI, 11 August 2010 (PlusNews) – By night, Viviane Muasi, 25, is a sex worker …
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
The use of trusted peers in HIV prevention has been shown to increase condom use by sex workers
NAIROBI, 11 August 2010 (PlusNews) – By night, Viviane Muasi, 25, is a sex worker …
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
The use of trusted peers in HIV prevention has been shown to increase condom use by sex workers
NAIROBI, 11 August 2010 (PlusNews) – By night, Viviane Muasi, 25, is a sex worker …
Photo: Anthony Kaminju/PlusNews
Choosing medical circumcision over the traditional method is regarded by many as cowardly
KAKAMEGA, 12 August 2010 (PlusNews) – For thousands of young men in western Kenya and eastern Uganda, the month of …
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A life in prison
HARARE, 11 August 2010 (IRIN) – Sarah Moyo, 24 – not her real name – clasps her stunted one-year-old child to her chest as she talks to her visiting …
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
The use of trusted peers in HIV prevention has been shown to increase condom use by sex workers
NAIROBI, 11 August 2010 (PlusNews) – By night, Viviane Muasi, 25, is a sex worker …
