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Explainer: why do women menstruate?

Only a handful of mammals aside from us – primates, some bat species and the elephant shrew – get their period.
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Dyani Lewis, University of Melbourne

For half the p...
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Amadiba Crisis Committee and the #Right2SayNO campaign statement of support

The Sex Rights Africa Network stands in solidarity with the Amadiba Crisis Committee and the #Right2SayNO campaign, who will be taking the South African Department of Mineral Resources to court on 23-25 April 2018, to defend their ancestral homeland against the mining interests of transnational corporations (TNCs) obtained without their consent.

The Sex Rights Africa Network urges the South Afr...
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Southern Africa Regional Students and Youth Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Words by Jane North

The second Southern Africa Regional Students and Youth Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Health (SARSYC) conference took place at the University of Johannesburg, Soweto camp...
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In The Media

‘Women and girls will die’: Trump’s foreign aid rule on abortion


'Women and girls will die': Trump's foreign aid rule on abortion
In the heat of a late September day in Mozambique, southern Africa, we started filming a meeting of young charity volunteers. They had poured heart and soul into an ambitious project aimed at combating HIV and spreading a message about contraception in the province of Gaza.
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28
Apr

World Day of Safety and Health at Work
01
May

International Worker’s Day
17
May

International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
28
May

International Menstrual Hygiene Day
28
May

International Day of Action for Women’s Health
01
Jun

International Children’s Day
05
Jun

World Environment Day
12
Jun

World Day Against Child Labour
16
Jun

Day of the African Child