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Most cases of abortion are illegal in Germany, which report is expected to say is not compatible with international standardsAbortions in Germany should be legalised within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, a government-appointed commission is expected to recommend on Monday.While abortion is rarely punished, it remains illegal in Germany, except for specific circumstances including when a woman’s life is in danger, or she...

Exclusive: Territory’s government calls for visit to listen to those thought to be living with consequences of forced fitting of IUDs‘I was only a child’: women tell of trauma of forced contraceptionThe Danish health minister should “get on a plane and visit” some of the thousands of women thought to be living with the consequences of being forcibly fitted with the contraceptive coil as...

Several schools have brought in shorts for cheerleaders at baseball tournament while another positioned teachers between the cheerleaders and spectatorsHigh schools taking part in Japan’s annual spring baseball tournament are taking action to prevent spectators from taking sexualised photographs of female cheerleaders.The invitational tournament – and a regular tournament held every summer at Koshien stadium near Osaka – are supposed to be a celebration...

Taoiseach says government did not do enough to convince people over amending provisions on family and careIreland’s referendums: what went wrong, and what happens now?Ireland has overwhelmingly rejected proposed changes to references on family and women in its constitution, delivering a rebuke to a government that had urged voters not to take a “step backwards”.Voters repudiated the family referendum with 67% voting “no”, and...

Film-maker held to account for dismissing claim of 1983 sexual assault against Charlotte Lewis as ‘heinous lie’The film director Roman Polanski has gone on trial for libel in Paris after accusing a British actor who claimed he abused her of “a heinous lie”.Charlotte Lewis, who was in court in Tuesday at the opening of the hearing, said she had been the victim of a...

Eiffel Tower lit up to mark change, seen as way of protecting law that decriminalised abortion in 1975The French parliament has enshrined abortion as a constitutional right at a historic joint session at the Palace of Versailles.Out of 925 MPs and senators eligible to vote, 780 supported the amendment, which will give women the “guaranteed freedom” to choose an abortion. Continue reading...

Women and children suffering acute malnutrition as territory faces ‘catastrophic conditions’, according to UNOne in five pregnant women treated at a central Gaza clinic are malnourished, doctors have warned, as fuel and medical supply shortages closed the last hospital operating in the north of the strip.“Every day, we see women and children coming into our clinic suffering from acute malnutrition,” said Dr Maram, the...

Proposed bill that could see prison sentences of up to 15 years for breaching rules moves forward in state legislature Tennessee state legislators moved on Tuesday to advance a bill that would ban people from taking minors for an abortion without parental permission – an act that the bill has dubbed “abortion trafficking”.If someone illegally “recruits, harbors, or transports a pregnant unemancipated minor” for...

Constitutional change could face fight in Senate after national assembly approves measure by 493 votes to 30France’s lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a measure to inscribe abortion as a “guaranteed freedom” in the constitution, a pledge made by the president, Emmanuel Macron, last year.But the controversial plan now goes to the upper-house Senate, where it faces resistance from the conservative Republicans and...

New show will follow Question Time format answering audience questions on taboo subjects from periods to women in politicsSomalia’s only all-female media team, Bilan, is launching the country’s first TV current affairs show to be hosted by a woman.The debate show, which plans to address some taboo subjects, will also be the first programme on Somali television to have a panel of at least...