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Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer reveals how that is changing – and what more needs to be done I would like to be able to...Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
It’s 13 years since we had sex. My libido has come roaring back – but she’s not interested My wife and I , both women in our 60s, have been together for more than 20 years . We stopped having sex about 13 years ago, due to a combination...Sunday, April 6, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Loss of funding could undo progress in reducing deaths in pregnancy and childbirth, especially in war zones, says UN More women risk dying in pregnancy and childbirth because of aid cuts by wealthy countries, which could have...Sunday, April 6, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Launched in 1885, the publication that defined a bygone era is reportedly going into liquidation. But magazine culture is booming, say insiders It launched in 1885 as a “journal for gentlewomen”, a place where classified advertisements...Sunday, April 6, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Snow White has sparked outrage across the board, but why is no one worried about its messaging on beauty? Last week I took my daughter to see the new Snow White film and on the train she told me how all the girls had been called into a...Sunday, April 6, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
All her life Jean Hannah Edelstein had tried to feel comfortable with her breasts, battling unwelcome attention and breastfeeding woes. But then came cancer and a double mastectomy – and she realised she was losing something she loved...Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
The first lady spoke about (wait for it) diversity as she presented awards to courageous women from around the world Let’s take a quick break from the increasingly dreadful news for a little check-in, shall we? So … how are you holding...Friday, April 4, 2025 from The latest WWD Headlines
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Our specialist free online counselling service is now available, designed to support survivors on their journey towards recovery. At Karma Nirvana, we understand that leaving Honour Based Abuse (HBA) is not just about physical safety –...Friday, April 4, 2025 from womensgrid - network
Responding to the STV News investigation, Heidi Stewart, Chief Executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, BPAS, said: “For far too long, women from Scotland – often some of the most vulnerable – have been forced to travel to...Friday, April 4, 2025 from womensgrid - network
We’ve received funding from Triangle Trust to deepen and expand our work on girls’ exclusions across three years, to work with young women with lived experience and expert organisations as a coalition of voices campaigning for change....Friday, April 4, 2025 from womensgrid - network
Overview New sentencing guidance from the Sentencing Council, expected to take effect this week (1 April 2025), has sparked debate across the media and political sphere since its announcement in early March. Following significant...Friday, April 4, 2025 from womensgrid - network
As outlined in a previous update, Women’s Aid have increased our minimum annual funding settlement for specialist domestic abuse services to align with a new estimate for the ‘by and for’ from the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s office....Friday, April 4, 2025 from womensgrid - network
WBG’s alternative feminist response to a changing world The current geopolitical and economic circumstances are challenging, but many issues the UK faces are long-standing and homegrown. Austerity policies in the last couple of decades...Friday, April 4, 2025 from womensgrid - network
On Thursday 28 March, the Ministry of Justice released its quarterly criminal court statistics for October – December 2024, and data shows that rape and sexual offences in the Crown Court’s backlog have reached yet another...Friday, April 4, 2025 from womensgrid - network
Sarah Davidge, Head of Research and Evaluation at Women’s Aid: The Domestic Homicide Project’s latest report proves that domestic abuse is a national emergency with a deadly impact on women and children. Every week, at least one woman is...Friday, April 4, 2025 from The latest WWD Headlines
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GENEVA / RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 04 (IPS) - As global leaders prepare to convene for the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) in New York, April 7-11, the world finds itself at a critical crossroads. We can either recommit to human...Global Disability Summit Galvanizes Education Support for Crisis-Impacted Children with Disabilities
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NAIROBI & BERLIN, Apr 03 (IPS) - Of the nearly 234 million children and adolescents of school age affected by crises, 85 million are already out of school. At least 20 percent of them—or 17 million—are children living with disabilities....Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Dispatches, presented by Cathy Newman, talks to 16 survivors or witnesses of the ex-Harrods boss’s abuse, as well as tracking down his alleged enabler. The result is a raw, horrifying and invaluable watch It is disturbingly easy to...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
WARMAWASAW, Meghalaya, India, Apr 03 (IPS) - In India’s Meghalaya, silkworm rearing and weaving are common in rural areas. Ri-Bhoi district of Meghalaya is among the regions where eri culture is deeply rooted in tradition; several women...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
JERUSALEM, Apr 02 (IPS) - The end of the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza is having disastrous consequences for women and girls. From 18 to 25 March—in just those 8 days, 830 people were killed—174 women, 322 children, with 1,787 more injured....Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
Amid alarming reports of sexual violence being used as a weapon of terror across Sudan, UN reproductive health agency, UNFPA, is warning that over 12 million women and girls – and increasingly men and boys – are estimated to be at risk....Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
Friday’s devastating earthquakes in Myanmar not only caused mass casualties and widespread destruction, they also deepened long-standing gender inequalities – leaving millions of women and girls at heightened risk, UN aid agencies warned...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
After a decade of conflict, loss is constant, as is fear for our children’s future. But we are more than this A decade of war in Yemen has left us in a place we never could have imagined. Our biggest worries were once exams, work and...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from womensgrid - network
The Westminster Government must not bow to pressure from the US or any foreign government seeking to undermine our hard-won protections for women accessing abortion care. The prosecution of Livia Tossici-Bolt is not an attack on free...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from womensgrid - network
Commenting on the announcement from the Department of Health and Social Care that the ‘morning-after pill’ will be made available “free of charge at pharmacies on the NHS for the first time ever, ending the postcode lottery women...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid found in seed oils such as soybean and safflower oil, and animal products including pork and eggs, specifically enhances the growth of the hard-to-treat 'triple negative' breast cancer subtype,...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Whether it’s driving solo from London to Lagos, a month on a motorbike, or vanlife in east Africa, these influencers are sharing their adventures – and helping others to negotiate the difficulties of a ‘weak’ passport Joy Ebaide was...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
At 18, Saraya-Jade Bevis had a rags-to-riches signing that took her from Norwich to the largest wrestling promotion in the world. A few years later, she hit rock bottom. Here is how she started over It’s hard to know where to start with...Monday, March 31, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
The cliche of the loutish, emotionally inadequate boyfriend is everywhere. The truth is more complicated How is the ideal heterosexual girlfriend supposed to behave? This played on my mind after I watched Companion , a film about a...Monday, March 31, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
She was the overshadowed member of the iconic group. But now, with a major exhibition not far from the house she turned into a work of art, Bell is finally getting her due. And she’s not the only one When you think of the Bloomsbury...Saturday, March 29, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Roomy, reliable and robust... These classics have buckets of style Continue reading...Saturday, March 29, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
She’s getting divorced and facing an empty nest, but the standup and creator of The Change insists she’s having the time of her life Is it a pigeon-hole, Bridget Christie asked to be photographed in, or is it a box? Either way, it’s some...Saturday, March 29, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
In the 1960s, William Sargant used a combination of narcosis and ECT to ‘reprogram’ troubled young women. Now his patients, including the actor Celia Imrie and the former model Linda Keith, are trying to piece together what happened From...Friday, March 28, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Eight participants – most of them ‘lesbian first-timers’ – are invited to shed shame and revel in pleasure Eight women are lying in a room in a mansion in Mount Martha, a wealthy suburb an hour out of Melbourne. Their heads are in the...Thursday, March 27, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Mar 27 (IPS) - This year’s session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69), the world’s leading forum for advancing gender equality, confronted unprecedented challenges. With Saudi Arabia in...Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
URBANA, Illinois, US, Mar 25 (IPS) - On March the 8 th , the world celebrated International Women’s Day . This year’s theme was “For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment” and called for actions that aim to unlock power and...Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
KABUL, Mar 25 (IPS) - Azar Shaimaa sits in grief, her voice trembling with sorrow as she recounts the devastating loss of her daughter, Benazir. A bright ninth-grade student, Benazir took her own life. Just three years earlier, Shaimaa...Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
From nipple cream to emergency chocolate, button-down PJs to stinky cheese, these are the postnatal presents new mums say make all the difference • Parents on the baby gear they wouldn’t go without When we asked new mums about the best...Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Report reveals scale of abuse faced by women in politics from countries such as Australia, India, Laos and Mongolia Sexism, harassment and violence against women are rife in parliaments across the Asia-Pacific region, according to a...Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
The number of children around the world dying before their fifth birthday stands at a record low – but this achievement is under threat due to a chronic lack of investment in routine humanitarian work and interventions, the head of the...Friday, March 21, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Sick of being overcharged and underestimated, women are steering towards female mechanics to fix their vehicles and learn basic car maintenance Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Alicia Holland was always curious about cars,...Thursday, March 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Mammograms, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) models, may reveal much more than cancer, according to a new study. The findings highlight how these important cancer screening tools can also be used to assess the amount of...Thursday, March 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Researchers have discovered a promising new vaccine strategy for treating a specific type of breast cancer. The innovative approach targets human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive, estrogen receptor-negative (HER2-positive,...Monday, March 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body cavities -- are mute, serving mostly as protective barriers...