Black women are dying at high rates while pregnant, during labor or shortly afterwards, and little is being done to help. The rates are up across the U.S., and nowhere is the problem more serious than in Texas.
The importance of women in African society is portrayed in a Ghanaian proverb which says, ‘A Woman is a flower in a garden, her husband is the fence around.’
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
Graça Machel explains the thinking behind the launch of a Pan African network of women in journalism. allAfrica.com is among the media houses supporting the network.
N’na Fanta Camara, a healer from Guinea, in Western Africa, was recently arrested for conning over 700 women into thinking they were pregnant by giving them a strange cocktail of plants and medicines that left
The first effort to document the arrests of women based on their pregnancy, drug use, conditions and behaviors was published in 1992. This report documented over 160 incidents of arrest of women based on their status as pregnant people.
Getting maternity insurance once you are pregnant is doubtful. Here are some tips to help you get the care you need.
The African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis, also known as the xenopus, African clawed toad, African claw-toed frog or the platanna) is a species of African …
INTRODUCTION. Criminal Prosecutions Against Pregnant Women: National Update and Overview documents the cases of an estimated 167 women who have been arrested on criminal charges because of their behavior during pregnancy or because they became pregnant while addicted to drugs.