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27th June, 2012
Teenage pregnancy deaths a ‘global scandal’: charity
Childbirth is the leading killer of adolescent girls in Africa, according to UN figures.
Childbirth is the leading killer of adolescent girls in Africa, according to UN figures.
19th January, 2012
Child marriage behind high maternal mortality rate
ISLAMABAD, Jan 18: In Pakistan, one woman dies in every 20 minutes during childbirth and the major cause of the high maternal mortality ratio 276 per 100,000 live births is child marriage.
ISLAMABAD, Jan 18: In Pakistan, one woman dies in every 20 minutes during childbirth and the major cause of the high maternal mortality ratio 276 per 100,000 live births is child marriage.
22nd December, 2011
Nepali girls confined by stigma and superstition
NEPAL: Saraswati Biswokarma sits in the dark, rearranging the threadbare cotton sheet and straw bed she is forced to sleep on before bringing her knees…
NEPAL: Saraswati Biswokarma sits in the dark, rearranging the threadbare cotton sheet and straw bed she is forced to sleep on before bringing her knees…
8th December, 2011
Women’s depression linked to partners’ abuse
HONG KONG: Forty per cent of women who suffer depression after childbirth are abused either physically or emotionally by their partners, researchers in Australia said…
HONG KONG: Forty per cent of women who suffer depression after childbirth are abused either physically or emotionally by their partners, researchers in Australia said…
27th October, 2011
Performance artist gives birth in NY gallery
NEW YORK: There’s something new to see at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn: a newborn baby called Ajax whose mother made her pregnancy the subject…
NEW YORK: There’s something new to see at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn: a newborn baby called Ajax whose mother made her pregnancy the subject…
7th September, 2011
Chad, Somalia ”worst places for child to fall ill”
LONDON: Chad and Somalia are the worst countries in the world for a child to fall sick while Switzerland and Finland rank as the best,…
LONDON: Chad and Somalia are the worst countries in the world for a child to fall sick while Switzerland and Finland rank as the best,…
