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Israeli husbands who refuse to grant a Jewish religious divorce to their wives can now be indicted and face stiff...

By Pearl Osibu ‘Pearl, you know, you should just stop saying you’re a feminist.’ If I had a Naira for every time...

United Nations (UN) human rights experts have urged countries to end the inappropriate marketing of breast-milk...

Alicia Keys has called anyone who doesn’t class themselves as a feminist as “crazy”. Speaking to Elle UK magazine...

The 2016 World State Report has called for investment in girl’s education, health, and leadership skills to enable...

Face of feminism: Is it problematic for a feminist to sell make-up? One of the world’s leading feminists is not the...

International October 20, 2016

Facebook has removed a video on breast cancer awareness posted in Sweden after it considered the images "offensive", a...

Opinion September 25, 2016

Thirty-five-year old Alima Yakubu is a mother of six. When she gave birth to her first five children, she did not...

Opinion September 8, 2016

Women’s participation in development and politics is a human rights issue - a precondition for Sustainable...

International June 10, 2016

An Atlanta mom has reportedly quit her job in order to have an Adult Breastfeeding Relationship (ABR) with her new...

Africa & World May 31, 2016

Egyptian prosecutors are investigating the death of a teenage girl during a female circumcision operation at a private...

Africa & World May 29, 2016

One of Pakistan’s powerful governing bodies, the Council of Islamic Ideology, has put together a 160-page draft that...

Featured May 27, 2016

Three female students of the Nurses and Midwifery Training School, Mampong, Ashanti have been denied opportunity to...

Health August 10, 2014

Nestle Ghana has introduced paternity leave for its male employees to support exclusive breastfeeding for infants...