A group of sailors held hostage for almost a fortnight is returning to their ship off Iraq this week.
Their brave decision also means they will be once again patrolling in a small inflatable boat near Iranian waters - where Revolutionary Guards seized.
Dominated by Catholics for long, the Mexicans finally felt the need to break the shackles by legalizing the abortion. The new law is bound to affect government policies and health practices all over. The proposal to legalize abortion was approved by...
Betty Makoni of Zimbabwe, girls' right activist has been awarded the annual World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child yesterday. While India's Inderjit Khurana and Myanmar's Cynthia Maung collectively became the recipient of an honorary...
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is one of the most frightful forms of violence against women. Even though much sensitization has been made on the negative effects of such practices, some Africans and even people of other parts of the world continue to...
In the past decade, many Kenyan women lived in a world where they were subjected to the pain of female circumcision, ignorance of deadly disease prevention methods and a lack of education. Often forced into arranged marriages, these women were faced with.
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