Family planning is an “effective means" of “empowering women to make them more economically productive, a United Nations (UN) study said.
UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Doctor Babatunde Osotimehin said in a statement released (...)
Giving birth is typically the most joyful moment in a woman's life. Yet, this very process takes the life of so many women worldwide. Every day, some 800 women die in pregnancy or childbirth from complications that are very often preventable. And (...)
Maria says it was the most violent day of her whole life. Even now, 30 years later, she remembers every detail. That morning, her mother told her “We are going to purify you.”
Maria didn't know what that meant, but it all happened very quickly. (...)
