Inflatable incubator aims to help save premature babies

Rebecca Smithers: A design graduate won this year’s James Dyson award for his low-cost inflatable incubator which aims to reduce infant mortality

Spending $25 a woman annually on healthcare could save millions of lives

Investing in reproductive healthcare would bring huge benefits for women and children and reduce long-term costs, says report by Guttmacher Institute and UN

Is Egypt ready to join growing global movement to end FGM?

Suad Abu-Dayyeh: The acquittal of those involved in the tragic story of Sohair al-Bata’a, who died after undergoing FGM, highlights the need for Egypt to outlaw the practice

One in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence from partner

More needs to be done to tackle endemic global violence against women, say papers published in the Lancet

Efua Dorkenoo obituary

Determined campaigner against female genital mutilation

FGM: more than 1,700 women and girls treated by NHS since April

Public health minister heralds data collection on female genital mutilation as ‘major milestone’ on road to ending FGM in the UK

Caesarean section rates in South Africa ‘recklessly high’, warn experts

Up to 90% of pregnant private hospital patients opt for C-section in parts of Cape Town, far exceeding WHO limit of 15%

Denmark and Netherlands launch fund for sexual health groups

Cash aims to boost grassroots reproductive rights groups that are sometimes marginalised for their contentious agendas

Activists urge renewed women’s rights focus as UN meets in New York

Activists still demanding progress 20 years after Cairo deal, as UN meeting also aims to tackle newer problems of climate change and migration

Almost half of child deaths occur in first month of life, UN estimates

Most are from preventable causes such as diseases like pneumonia, malnutrition and complications in labour, but new research highlights success in Rwanda