1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1078+ words) Each year, people from across the world gather in a grove sacred to the Yoruba goddess Osun to be healed, conceive or realise their deepest wishes. But toxic lead, mercury and cyanide is leaching into the river 7Devotees in white clothing…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (709+ words) Critics hit out at ‘dire’ situation in the country which has the strictest laws around abortion in western Europe Rights campaigners have affixed lockboxes containing abortion pills to sites across Malta, in a campaign designed to highlight the country’s near-total…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (399+ words) In her new book, New York Times investigative journalist Jodi Kantor has set her mind to helping young people find their life’s work. What should they, or anyone else who feels lost and overwhelmed right now, do to get started?...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (874+ words) Female journalists’ accounts of harassment trigger avalanche of allegations reaching as far as government Juanita Gómez was reporting on an international assignment for Caracol, a Colombian television channel in 2015, when an older colleague attempted to forcibly kiss her by inside…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1154+ words) Experts have been alarmed at the growth of deep misogyny dressed up as self-help on social media. We profile seven men from across the continent who are gaining traction It is not just Europe and the US that are grappling…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (655+ words) Hundreds sign open letter calling for owner of website, from which UN has distanced itself, to ‘contribute meaningfully’ More than 900 people have signed an open letter to the owners of the website internationalwomensday.com demanding that it “contribute meaningfully” or…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (646+ words) For me – and many other Black men – my experience of hair begins and ends in the barbershop. But as my two daughters get older, I’m determined to make ‘salon night’ pain free – and maybe even enjoyable In the basement of…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (173+ words) After a debilitating illness, they’ve given me a reason to get out of bed – and I now have TikTokers who love me back So I decided to try something small but surprisingly powerful: I started sharing my “fits of the…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (874+ words) Sainsbury’s, Barclays and University College London have all drawn on themes created by IWD site run by London business with no link to UN Nobody owns International Women’s Day, but if you asked the 193 countries, countless businesses and NGOs that…...