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No woman should be slapped for screaming as she gives birth | Ann Yates

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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...

Poverty-stricken Hungarians are easy pickings for traffickers on Facebook

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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...

Red Speedo review a poolside doping drama with hidden depths

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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...