Outrage in UK over police guidelines on monitoring women after pregnancy loss
Police guidelines suggesting home searches and digital checks for women who experience pregnancy loss have sparked uproar in Britain
Stop the Pushback: defending women’s rights in multilateral spaces
The global “Stop the Pushback” campaign warns of rollbacks on women’s rights in multilateral spaces
Afghanistan faces multiple crises rooted in failure to build a robust health system
The health system in Afghanistan continues to struggle with a lack of funds and structure while pressures increase. Governmental policies and climate change and adding to the burden
Private health companies prosper while healthcare access stagnates
A new report by Oxfam shows how investments made by development finance institutions from the Global North benefit private health companies rather than people in need of health care
Florida’s abortion ban and “pro-life” hypocrisy
Women’s lives are on the line after Ron DeSantis, notoriously ultra-right Governor of Florida, signed a six-week abortion ban
Mexican state of Hidalgo legalizes abortion
With the historic decision, Hidalgo becomes the third state after Mexico City and Oaxaca to legalize elective abortions
Mexican state of Oaxaca legalizes abortion
Oaxaca is the second state after the capital Mexico City to decriminalize elective abortions
Activists vow to continue struggle as bid to decriminalize abortion in cases of rape fails in Ecuador
The proposal to decriminalize abortion in cases of rape was defeated in Ecuador’s National Assembly after it obtained only 65 votes as opposed to the mandatory 70
Argentine feminist groups begin fresh struggle for legal abortion
The National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion will present – for the eighth time – a fresh draft of the bill for the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (IVE) before the House of Representatives
- Massive fire engulfs a hypermarket in Iraq, killing almost 80 people
- New Jersey immigrant advocates slam ICE plan for military base detention center
- Conservative-majority Congress slashes public media funding by over one billion dollars
- Israel’s strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church kills three
- UK Labour Party suspends MPs over austerity bill rebellion
