During the first Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, the needs of women and girls caught up in the refugee crisis should assume their proper place at the center of world concern.
This week’s big gathering in Denmark also features the McKinsey Institute’s latest research on the wage gap and a new philanthropic initiative co-chaired by Melinda Gates and Mette-Marit, crown princess of Norway.
The Door is getting a population of teens who don’t go to other clinics for health care. “I go to my pediatrician for regular checkups but I come here for birth control because nobody knows,” says one girl.
American anti-abortion advocates invented race-selective abortion bans and they are based on the absurd idea that minority women are racially discriminating against their own fetuses.
This clinical team is known for its surgeries to repair the clitoris. But its services for survivors of FGM are much more. “We treat the whole mutilation with its emotional, social and psychologic impact,” says a pioneering surgeon.
The Moods Planet condom store is set on one of Panaji’s busiest streets. Buffered by a motorcycle repair shop on one side and a jeweler on the other, this brightly lit store with its distinctive logo — the shapely ‘o’s of Moods intertwined — seems incongruous.
Female feticide may be illegal in India but old structures of patriarchy combine with medical technologies to keep it going. We need basic awareness campaigns, not government mandates that will first invade a woman’s privacy and then backfire.
Instead of celebrating progress, we have to ask why we fare so poorly compared to many other countries. From being underpaid to losing abortion access, it’s a depressing list. But let’s not look away.
The country is a magnet for female immigrants from Eritrea, Nigeria, Somalia, Guinea and Ethiopia. Thousands of women from these countries have fled FGM and help define what it means to be a refugee in Europe.
When a black woman walks into a medical institution, her trauma shows up at the door with her. Beyond childbirth, sexual trauma greatly impacts the lives of black women who desire any kind of reproductive health care.
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