Is telling breastfeeding mums their milk may not be good enough unethical?

Iris Coates: My Milk Count, a service that analyses breastmilk for essential nutrients may be worse than useless, according to some experts. So why has it been marketed to breastfeeding mums?

Art, gender and pleasure should collide more often – just like on the Clit Rodeo

Jessica Valenti: Artist Sophia Wallace says that women can't fight for freedom from violence or reproductive justice without exposing taboos

Endless nips and tucks, Botox and filler: is this what a woman’s right to choose has mutated into?

Suzanne Moore: The bloated faces of so many of our stars do not speak to me of empowerment: instead, I see powerlessness and women masking age with an odd veneer

Nepalese women suffer stigma and pain of fallen wombs

Yadav's womb started to slip from her body after giving birth at just 14. Thirty years later, the condition remains. She is one of a growing number of Nepalese women suffering from uterine prolapse triggered by overwork and early childbirth. Magally Zelaya and Ian Bickis investigate

Female genital mutilation parties being held in UK, MPs told

Health professionals tell committee that 'cutters' are flown into Britain for events at which up to a dozen girls may be mutilated

Yemen law on child brides and FGM offers hope of wider progress

Suad Abu-Dayyeh: The smooth passage of legislation outlawing child marriage and female genital mutilation is key to Yemen's long-term prosperity

Alison Saunders, director of public prosecutions: ‘I think women have had, as witnesses and victims, a raw deal’

Susanna Rustin: Britain's new director of public prosecutions has had a tricky six months, and has huge challenges ahead. But the conviction this week of publicist Max Clifford is a vindication of Alison Saunders' pledge to do more for vulnerable, especially female, victims

Cosmetic surgery and teenagers – a disaster waiting to happen

Young women feeling insecure, media pressure to get the 'perfect body' and an unregulated industry exploiting a growing market all add up to a looming crisis. So why won't the government step in, asks Jane Martinson

Breast cancer mammograms: overrated – and over-diagnosing women

Karuna Jaggar: It is time to radically re-think the flawed philosophy behind the 'early detection' tenet of the breast cancer awareness movement

How can Britain deport a child at risk of FGM? Theresa May must think again

Hilary Burrage: Two-year-old Rashidat was born in the UK after her mother fled a forced marriage to a much older man. Now the Home Office wants to send her to Nigeria

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