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Kate Edgely was amazed to be asked if she would consider a home birth for her second child after having had complications with her first, but she was very glad to have been given the option
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Every year, a growing proportion of those convicted of drink-driving are women. Does it reveal a new – and often hidden – drinking problem? Lucy Rock investigates
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YouTube video of confrontation outside London clinic goes viral as activist who filmed it faces threat of legal action
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Nigel Farage says women who breastfeed in public should do so without being 'ostentatious'
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British foreign secretary says country must make shrewd use of donor support to effect political, social and economic transformation
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Investing in reproductive healthcare would bring huge benefits for women and children and reduce long-term costs, says report by Guttmacher Institute and UN
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National Theatre of Scotland to collaborate with Contact theatre in Manchester for drama about female genital mutilation
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Women’s rights group says military uses sexual violence to intimidate women in ethnic minority communities and take control of resource-rich areas
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Womankind rights organisation wants donors to commit to long-term funding to achieve lasting change at local level
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Kathryn Borel: The now-disgraced CBC radio star fondled and abused me for years. He got away with it because management decided to protect their celebrity
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Throughout the US, women sold as sex workers for commercial gain are branded with tattoos by their traffickers
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Women surviving on the margins in Pakistan open their homes to photojournalist Alixandra Fazzina
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Mexico's complex and polarised abortion debate has had a direct impact on the lives of two young women in the country
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The shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper decries the criminal justice system for a lack of action on tackling domestic violence
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At last week's Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict summit in London, we teamed up with ActionAid to run a video booth allowing people to record a message to world leaders. We've compiled a selection of those messages. See if yours is here
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Two years on from the London Summit on Family Planning, Melinda Gates, businesswoman and co-chair of the philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, discusses the progress made on tackling the issue
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Protesters gather outside the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles on Monday after the hotel's owner, the Sultan of Brunei, introduced sharia law in his home country
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Miriam González Durántez interrupts Nick Clegg's speech on Wednesday to ask a question about attitudes towards men who care or their children
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The chief operating officer of the multibillion pound social network and author of Lean In – and a big Democrat supporter – talks to Jemima Kiss
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In the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, a unique community has evolved based on egalitarian principles. Zumra Nuru, who founded Awra Amba in 1972, explains how he realised his childhood vision of creating a democratic, self-sustaining society where men and women are equals, while a young couple explain how they have benefited
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Jameela Jamil, presenter of the official chart show on BBC Radio 1, speaks to John Plunkett at Ad Week Europe about how she was victimised on Twitter for her criticism of Miley Cyrus
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More than a decade after female genital mutilation was first outlawed in Kenya, a former cutter explains why it continues to be business as usual
How the police are letting sexual assault victims down