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‘I didn’t set out to break records’: Pakistan’s first female MMA fighter
Anita Karim retraces her journey into combat sports ahead of the country’s first ever professional women’s MMA fight.
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Italy adds ‘femicide’ to the criminal code to curb violence against women
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has supported a bill to punish ‘femicide’ with life imprisonment.
![Women hold banners reading 'You are healthy children of patriarchy' and 'Femicide is a state murder, the state does not protect us' during a gathering for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Milan, Italy, on November 25, 2023 [Luca Bruno/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AP23354583740518-1764125496.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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How a study on hormonal contraception and breast cancer was distorted
Swedish study says hormonal birth control slightly raises breast cancer risk, but experts note the increase is small.
![A one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills is displayed in Sacramento, California. [File: Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AP24294731799137-1764057290.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Partners, family members killed 137 women each day in 2024: UN
About 83,000 women and girls were intentionally killed worldwide last year.
Accused, shunned, exiled: The women banished to Ghana’s ‘witch camps’
Women accused of witchcraft are cast out of their communities in north Ghana. Now some are trying to break this cycle.
![“I’ve lived in this camp for 45 years,” says Bachalibanoya. After her husband’s death, the children of his other wife accused her of witchcraft—an allegation that would alter the course of her life. Now the oldest resident of the Gambaga camp, she has lived in exile for more than four decades. [Claire Thomas/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CT_GHANA_9MAY25_0186-1763638267-1-1763884262.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Major MAGA figure Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns after Trump clash
Greene says ‘standing up for American women raped at 14’ should not lead to being branded a ‘traitor’ by Trump.
Kenyan woman uses knitted breast prostheses to confront cancer and stigma
After undergoing a mastectomy, a woman in central Kenya has found purpose through knitting and community support.
Nearly one-third of women worldwide faced partner or sexual violence: WHO
Despite stark findings, World Health Organization says violence against women and girls is ‘a deeply neglected crisis’.
The oyster farmers battling climate change in Fiji’s troubled seas
As fishing traditions are threatened by storms and poachers, pearl oyster farms offer a lifeline to coastal communities.
UN urges humanitarian corridor to help civilians stuck in Sudan’s el-Fasher
IOM chief calls for ceasefire to allow aid groups to reach Sudanese civilians trapped in war-torn Darfur region.
In her dying moments, a stranger changed my life
I’d crashed my car into a homeless woman. She spent her final moments showing me kindness.
