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Reproductive rights

News, comment and features on reproductive rights in developing countries 

June 2026

  • Four African women by a billboard advertising the 4th African inter-parliamentary conference on family values and sovereignty

    ‘Family values’ African charter condemned by rights groups as regressive and dangerous

    Draft treaty claims sexual and reproductive health and rights are an existential threat to the African family

May 2026

  • A crying child is held by two women while a healthcare worker administers an injection in a clinic

    UK, German and French aid cuts will take ‘devastating toll’ on most vulnerable, says study

    As Europe’s leading donor states slash budgets, the result could be more than 11.5m preventable deaths, report finds

March 2026

  • A conference hall full of women

    Will UN plans to transform the way it works ‘throw equality under the bus’?

  • Women with red paint on their legs march arm in arm down a street chanting.

    Peruvian state responsible for mother’s death in forced sterilisation, court rules

February 2026

  • Three women in colourful saris walk past a black and white mural of a child.

    Opinion
    double quotation markI’m married, Pakistani – and I don’t want children. That doesn’t make me broken

    Fizza Abbas
    I live in a country where a woman’s value is often measured by motherhood, but for me and many others fulfilment simply looks different

January 2026

  • A group of women pose in front of a large office window overlooking Bogatá

    ‘It’s not the 90s any more’: the all-women team reinventing abortion advice for the TikTok age

    The irreverent approach of the Colombian hotline Jacarandas has made it the most-followed abortion account on social media in the Spanish-speaking world

December 2025

  • A group of protestors outside the United States Capitol Dome, with placards saying 'USAID saves lives' and 'the faces of foreign aid'

    ‘Trojan horse moment’: anti-rights groups seize chance to fill void left by US aid cuts

    Ultra-conservative Christian organisations look to reshape global health landscape as new aid agreements open door to demands restricting family planning services
  • A woman, back to camera, looks out of a window with a metal grille, over the rooftops of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

    Five key moments in the assault on the rights of women and girls in 2025

    Since Trump’s second term began in January, global healthcare, especially for sexual and reproductive health, has been under constant attack

    • Figures reveal stark reality of US funding cuts as 1,394 family planning clinics shut

    • Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

    • Women in prison
      double quotation mark‘Bad girls’ is how society labels women in prison. But what if that label is a lie?

      Sabrina Mahtani

November 2025

  • A 13 year old girl sits on a bed in a dark room holding a baby

    Aid cuts
    Countries boost family planning funding in ‘powerful shift from dependency’ in Africa after aid cuts

  • Portrait of Mahnoor Omer wearing a white shirt and black jacket

    The young lawyer taking Pakistan to court over its unfair ‘period tax’

October 2025

  • Protesters dressed in red capes and bonnets seen from behind in front of a fascistic-looking banner with a photo of President Trump hanging from a public building

    US ‘undermining global health’ by threatening to strip funding from aid projects that do not fit its political agenda

    Trump administration reported to be planning expansion of ‘global gag rule’ to halt any initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion

June 2025

  • DSC05799 Women survivors Tigray, Ethiopia X-ray image showing a nail clipper inserted inside a uterus, Mekele, Tigray, March 2025.

    Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

    Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant prospect

May 2025

  • People standing in rows looking like they are singing an anthem while an older woman at the front holds a sign saying: 'Derogación del Aborto ya'

    Rights and freedom
    Argentina used as a ‘testing ground’ for eroding abortion rights, warns Amnesty

    Alarm as Javier Milei’s government curbs state supply of abortion pills and seeks to reverse landmark legalisation
  • Women wearing red lie of the ground in front of a line of riot police guardian a building.

    Case of mother who died during forced sterilisation in Peru to be heard in court

    Celia Ramos was one of thousands of women subjected to government’s brutal policy in the 1990s. A ruling by the inter-American court of human rights could open way for reparations
  • An African woman poses with a rainbow flag

    ‘We’re ready to fight’: activists brace as US anti-rights figures descend on Africa

    Ultra-conservative campaigners fly in for ‘family values’ conferences to share tactics with African allies who oppose abortion and LGBTQ+ rights

January 2025

  • A girl in a vest top and skirt walks through a doorway away from the camera. Around the door are posters about maternal health.

    Opinion
    double quotation markSierra Leone is on the brink of making history. We must not allow the US far right to infiltrate and stop us

    Dr Ramatu Bangura
  • Portrait of David Miliband wearing a suit and tie against a backdrop of a bridge over a river

    David Miliband warns rise of ‘alternative facts’ threatens global vaccination drive

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