Women's Health

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has removed a clause from a new criminal law that had allowed chemical...

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has introduced chemical castration as a possible punishment for serial rapists under a...

By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW (Reuters) - At least 89 people, including 17 children, have tested positive for the Zika virus...

By Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk and Kacper Pempel WARSAW (Reuters) - The death of a pregnant Polish woman has reignited debate over...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered in cities across Poland on Saturday to protest against strict abortion laws after...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - An international rights watchdog named El Salvador the most unsafe country for women in Latin America...

By Jeff Mason and Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - An emotional U.S. President Joe Biden, who has come away from...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Devout Roman Catholic Joe Biden meets Pope Francis in the Vatican on Friday at...

By Allegresse Sasse COTONOU (Reuters) - Benin's parliament has voted to legalise abortion in most circumstances, the health ministry said...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has no plans to resume military-led evacuation flights from Afghanistan, but is working to ensure...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The U.N. General Assembly on Thursday elected the United States to the Geneva-based Human...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Health workers have a non-negotiable right to exercise conscientious objection by refusing to...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Health authorities and charities in Gaza are stepping up efforts to persuade women to...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis met on Saturday with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic...

By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Wednesday that abortion is "murder", even soon...

By Eissa al-Ragehi HAJJAH (Reuters) - In the poor village of Jarb in northern Yemen, Ashwaq Mahmoud gives her time...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's supreme court ruled on Thursday that the protection of "life from conception" was unconstitutional, doubling...

By Laura Gottesdiener MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - When a nurse arrived at Martha Mendez's bedside in a Mexican hospital carrying...

PARIS (Reuters) - France will make access to birth control free for women aged up to 25 years old from...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The Mexican Supreme Court's unanimous decision on Tuesday to decriminalize abortion will principally help poorer women, who...