Pregnant women shouldn’t be policed by media hype on binge drinking

Lola Okolosie: If women are seeking abortions because of fears they have damaged their foetus, it shows how ingrained the message is that we’re unfit to control our pregnant bodies

Gambian youth come together for conference to tackle FGM

More than 100 young people attend Guardian-backed event aiming to ‘bury’ female genital mutilation in west African country

Gambian campaigner returns home to stop female gential mutilation

Jaha Dukureh heads for The Gambia after 10 years in the US where she led a Guardian backed campaign against FGM

Womb transplant birth worth the risk, says mother

First woman to give birth from transplanted uterus says pregnancy option was perfect idea despite lack of guarantees

Guardian campaigner meets White House officials in bid to end FGM

Jaha Dukureh launched campaign with NGO Equality Now to highlight the issue of female genital mutilation in the US

When talking about your problems actually makes them worse

Philippa Perry: As Walter Mischel says, distancing yourself from a traumatic event will help you deal with it better than continually reliving it obsessionally

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

Germany ponders ground-breaking law to combat work-related stress

Draft proposal states employees should be protected from being 'permanently reachable by modern means of communication'