IRIN, UN News Service, 12 July 2011 Authorities are striving to improve health conditions for women in Afghanistan, where maternal mortality and female life expectancy indicators are the worst in the world, says a new report. According to the State of the World’s Mothers 2011 report, published on 24 June by NGO Save the Children, [...]
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Kenya: Legislation failing to curb FGM/C
IRIN, UN News Service, 2 June 2011 At her grandmother’s home in the western Kenyan village of Nyamataro, 14-year-old Ruth* lies on a mat surrounded by visitors, all congratulating her on becoming a woman; the previous week, Ruth was one of 10 girls to undergo female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). “When people see me and I [...]
