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Toxins from old computers, fridges and other electronic goods are polluting chicken eggs in an area where 80,000 people live -
Campaigners move to end misconceptions about emergency contraception in country where morning-after pill is outlawed
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Attacks on health centres are impeding efforts to contain an epidemic that has claimed nearly 900 lives in nine months -
Measure on sexual violence in conflict passes after Trump administration threatened to veto document over references to reproductive health
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One in four Zimbabweans suffers from mental illness, but untrained female health workers are setting a new benchmark for the treatment of patients
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After losing his right hand when a discarded Boko Haram bomb went off, Jonathan, 14, learned to write with his left. Now he dreams of becoming a lawyer
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Captured and raped by Isis fighters, Yazidi women fear rejection on their release. Now they are learning to heal thanks to a revolution in their religion -
When Maryam had an abortion, her husband beat and humiliated her. Her story is not unusual in Afghanistan, yet illegal, unsafe terminations are on the rise -
Indian companies trying to combat the stigma surrounding menstruation have launched a policy allowing female workers a day off each month
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Beatings and death threats are part of daily life for two activists who save people enslaved in the remote Russian republic of Dagestan -
Poverty and caste discrimination mean that children in Sagar Gram are being groomed by their own families for abuse -
Thousands of Nigerian women could be expelled or left homeless as Salvini decree abolishes protective measures -
Investigation highlights failings of Dutch and UK authorities to care properly for unaccompanied minors
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Move by Islamic authorities condemned as attempt to ‘intimidate women activists’ -
Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused with kerosene and burned at her school, dying 10 days later of her injuries -
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Sexual harassment has long been rife in Nigeria’s bustling markets. Now women are mobilising in protest -
About 13,000 people are kept in slavery in the UK. Amy Romer’s book The Dark Figure* reveals the terrifying ordinariness of the sites of their captivity
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