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Bodily autonomy: Busting 7 myths that undermine individual rights and freedoms
Some of the most persistent barriers to bodily autonomy involve stereotypes, assumptions and misconceptions about bodily autonomy.
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Serbian women with disabilities shatter taboos, transform health services amid pandemic
Mónika Zsúnyi, 26, can do many extraordinary things. Living in Temerin, Serbia, she has an advanced degree in applied mathematics and spends her time doing 3D modelling. She is an avid reader and community organizer.…
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Timor-Leste floods leave death, destruction and displacement in their wake
Forty-two deaths. Dozens missing. More than 10,000 newly homeless. Impassable roads. Power blackouts. Rescue attempts requiring excavators and cranes. This is the devastating aftermath for Timor-Leste, an island nation…
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A publication on reproductive health for women with disabilities is published in Braille
In a win for inclusion, a reproductive health publication for women with disabilities has been published in Braille for the visually impaired.
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Yemeni midwives help deliver hope during Ramadan
Often heard throughout the global pandemic is that essential workers cannot work from home. But the world’s worst humanitarian crisis calls for extraordinary measures. In a country ravaged by conflict, where only half…
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Dominican Republic project champions welfare of mothers amid COVID-19 pandemic
Even with the global pandemic raging, Lucía García says she feels more prepared for childbirth, and better supported, than she did before.
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Mobile clinics deliver last-mile reproductive health care in Madagascar
Ambovombe is a landlocked district in southern Madagascar, where only about half of health facilities are accessible year-round because of poor roads and challenging terrain. And even if one could get there, the cost of…
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Motherhood on the brink: Pregnant women in Yemen under famine and violence
“It was the morning of a normal working day before fighting escalated close to the hospital. I heard a mother screaming at the gate,” midwife Shrook Khalid Saeed told UNFPA this week at the Al Shaab Hospital in the…
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Sudan sees expanded life-saving reproductive health services, with women at the helm
Farina*, 50, in Sudan’s Blue Nile State, cannot remember how long ago she developed an obstetric fistula, a devastating childbirth injury that causes chronic incontinence, infections and, often, ostracism from the…
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