Women's rights and gender equality This article is more than 4 years oldNo woman should be slapped for screaming as she gives birthThis article is more than 4 years oldAnn YatesRespect in childbirth is a human right. As a midwife of many years’ experience, I am calling for a global effort towards more compassion in maternity care
Respectful maternity care is a universal human right due to every childbearing woman in every health system around the world. Read More...
Exploitation in focusHuman traffickingPromises of a better life in many social media posts are often a trap for marginalised communities such as the Roma
In the village of Bag, north-east of Budapest, the houses along the main street are smart and well-kept. Tucked behind, up a slight hill, where the buildings become bare brick and the tarmac road turns into a dust track, people sit on the ground in the afternoon sun, talking and playing cards. Read More...
StageReviewNew York Theatre Workshop, New York, New York
Beginning with the discovery of performance enhancing drugs in a locker-room, this play comes to the boil – and the lead actor deserves a medal for bravery
The splash of the butterfly, the speed of the freestyle, the palpable labor of the backstroke – these are not the methods of the playwright Lucas Hnath. Hnath is a breaststroke sort of guy: formal rigor, propulsive momentum, the sense that there’s a lot happening just below the surface. Read More...