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The UNICEF logo is seen at the German UNICEF headquarters in Cologne, Germany, on February 5, 2008
Tory leader’s video was ‘an insult to the innocent civil rights protesters who were murdered in Derry in January 1972,’ says SDLP MP Colum Eastwood
OVER 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of them living in Africa, according to a report published today by the United Nations children’s agency.
In the last eight years, some 30 million people have been subjected to the procedure, in which external genitalia are partially or fully removed, Unicef estimates in the report released on International Women’s Day.
The percentage of women and girls who suffer female genital mutilation is falling, Unicef said, but it warned that efforts to eradicate the practice are moving too slowly to keep up with fast-growing populations.
Women’s fight against violence and legal erosion is central to building a democratic and just Iraq, says Dr SALMA SAADAWI
MAISSON HASSAN highlights how amid bombed-out cities and collapsing hospitals, women-led initiatives are keeping communities alive
As the world marks International Women’s Day, African women warn that wars, mineral grabs and militarism are drowning out promises of peace. Human rights defender MARIE-CLAIRE FARAY explains
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN