Health

Wealth inequalities and a growing conservative backlash are combining to put lives at risk. © IWPR

Kenya Allows Safe Abortion. So Why Are Women Dying?

Wealth inequalities and a growing conservative backlash are combining to put lives at risk.

21 Nov 24

Adverts seeking surrogate mothers abound in Georgia, one of the few countries where commercial surrogacy is legal. The government is working on a law that would ban the fee-based practice and limit it only to prospective parents from Georgia.

Georgia Set to Ban Commercial Surrogacy

A draft law will strictly regulate the sector, prohibiting foreign couples from accessing services.

8 Aug 23

"I Love You Cristiano"

Football provides comfort for young earthquake survivors.

29 Jun 23

We Are With You

Initiative provides aid and psychosocial support to those affected by the earthquake.

29 Jun 23

Blindness No Barrier

A visually impaired man describes how he and others navigate life after the earthquake.

19 Jun 23

Seeking Safety

For some survivors of the earthquake, returning to live in a house is a terrifying prospect.

19 Jun 23

"This Camp is Uninhabitable"

Displaced people struggle with access to basic utilities as they wait for permanent solution.

14 Jun 23

A woman cries as a child receives treatment for malnutrition at Indira Gandhi hospital on August 13, 2022 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The collapse of the economy and the freezing of Afghan and donor funds after the Taliban takeover of the country in August 2021 created a humanitarian crisis. © Nava Jamshidi/Getty Images

Afghanistan’s Healthcare Crisis

Women and girls hard hit by increasingly desperate lack of access to medical services.

13 Jun 23

Syria's Emergency Response

IWPR supports efforts to get much-needed humanitarian aid to earthquake survivors.

9 Jun 23

The Man Who Lost Everything

Survivor tells how only he and his son survived out of a family of nine after the earthquake hit.