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An online network has been set up for specialist midwives, nurses and health visitors to help tackle female genital mutilation and to support survivors.
Michael Gove has said that as prime minister he would make it clear that primary schools teaching children about LGBT relationships is a government
requirement.
In an unprecedented series of meetings beginning on Thursday afternoon, children who say they have been "silenced" and "humiliated" by the Church will have
the opportunity to share their experiences.
Ecuador's decision to allow same-sex marriage has topped a landmark week for LGBT+ rights after Botswana decriminalised gay sex and Bhutan took the first
steps to do so, said campaigners marking the 50th anniversary of the gay equality movement.
Confronted with both serious measles outbreaks and a growing anti-vaccine movement, New York lawmakers voted Thursday to ban religious exemptions that would
allow parents to circumvent school-mandated vaccination.
The unanimous vote prohibits abortion within Waskom's city limits, leaving exceptions in the case of rape, incest or serious risk to the mother's life.
Scientists have looked for the first time at the brain patterns of Islamist radicals, showing that the part of the brain associated with deliberative
reasoning is deactivated when a person is willing to fight and die for a "sacred cause".
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