Emotional health in childhood ‘is the key to future happiness’
LSE study says money, success and good grades are less important
Wake up to breakfast raves – they’re a healthy way to start your working day
Morning Gloryville’s dawn disco dancing is a craze that’s taken off. You exercise in a party atmosphere, without the booze
FGM: Ban Ki-moon backs Guardian’s global media campaign
UN chief launches grants initiative in Kenya as part of Guardian-UNFPA push to change how female genital mutilation is reported and perceived
Iceland to import breast milk from Denmark
Babies born prematurely in Iceland and whose mothers are unable to breastfeed are to benefit from Danish milk banks
By removing photos of childbirth, Facebook is censoring powerful female images
Milli Hill: Birth is a fundamental feminist issue right now - women’s bodies should not be sanitised. Facebook should let us see it as it is
Japan’s pocchari trend celebrates ‘chubby’ women
Japan is a country where thinness is the norm. So can a trend embracing ‘chubbiness’ help young women reject fat-shaming stereotypes? By Abigail Haworth
Efua Dorkenoo OBE, the ‘incredible African female warrior’, has died
Dorkenoo’s lifelong dream of a global, Africa-led movement against FGM was realised just a week before her death
Margaret Cooper obituary
Other lives: Animal rights campaigner and former editor of the British Homeopathic Association's magazine
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
Caught on camera: the homophobic world of surfing
A new documentary shines a light on gay surfers around the world, and finds secret lives, struggles for sponsorship – and even suicides. Will Coldwell reports