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Nov 3 2014 8:53am
Ghoncheh Ghavami, in prison in Iran for wanting to watch volleyball
British-Iranian woman Ghoncheh Ghavami has been sentenced to a year in...
Nov 2 2014 9:47am
Iran's jailing of Ghoncheh Ghavami for volleyball protest is 'appalling'
‘It’s an outrage that a young woman is being locked up simply for peac...
Oct 29 2014 12:33pm
'I am trying to make a change for the future': El Salvador's youth activists
When I was growing up, I was told that abortion was illegal. In school...
Oct 21 2014 12:28pm
New poll Scots support abortion reform in Northern Ireland
80% of Scots surveyed say limited access to abortion in Northern Ir...
Oct 9 2014 11:24am
South Africa: Pregnant women and girls continue to die unnecessarily
Hundreds of pregnant women and girls are dying needlessly in South Afr...
Oct 8 2014 6:28pm
Malala Yousafzai’s suspected attackers arrested
Ten members of the Pakistani Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, susp...
Oct 1 2014 5:20pm
Why human rights were on the tips of everyone’s tongues at Conservative Party Conference…yes, really!
With defections to UKIP, an embarrassed Ministerial resignation, pensi...
Sep 11 2014 5:54pm
Iran: British woman detained for taking part in volleyball protest should be released
Interrogators have warned that Ghoncheh Ghavami ‘would not walk out...
Sep 4 2014 5:13pm
Danger: Afghan women workers at risk
What would you do if you received death threats because of your job? I...
Sep 3 2014 2:13pm
'Talk to me, not about me': Afghan women left out in the cold by NATO
This week world leaders converge upon Newport for the NATO summit. The...