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Malawi: Let churches reflect on abortion with Biblical values
As the world commemorates International Safe Abortion Day today on September 28, there is need to seriously reflect on whether complete prohibition a...
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Malawi moves towards Universal Healthcare
Good health is a precondition for development because only a healthy people can develop a country. Only a healthy people can fight poverty. That is wh...
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NGOs build capacity of Malawian lawyers to undertake abortion litigation
MANGOCHI, Malawi - Litigation is one strategy that can result in clarification of current vague abortion laws, which are perpetrating violation of wom...
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Malawi traditional chief calls for enactment of new abortion law
MZIMBA, Malawi – A senior traditional leader in northern Malawi Inkosi (Chief) Mabilabo Jere has urged the government to enact the proposed Terminat...
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Clinics for key populations in Malawi mock outdated same-sex laws
Forget that same sex relations in Malawi are criminalised! Various organisations in the conservative southern African nation are implementing strategi...
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Malawi struggles to save women from ruptured wombs
In Malawi’s national language, Chichewa, pregnancy is referred to as “pakati” which means “between life and death.” Some antiquated laws in ...
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Unsafe abortions haunt women in Malawi
Severe restriction of abortion does not reduce abortion rates, but instead it just affects the safety of the procedure. JOSEPH MWALE writes in The Nat...
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Malawi urged to domesticate reproductive health treaties
Malawi has an obligation to domesticate international treaties she has signed and ratified over the years, a human rights activist has said. “As a n...
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Activist asks Malawi to emulate Ireland’s abortion law reform
Women in Malawi should be given freedom to access sexual and reproductive health services without interference from the state and the church, a local ...
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Rural-based women activists in Malawi demand new abortion law enactment
Calls to enact the proposed Termination of Pregnancy Bill in Malawi are mounting amidst an increase in deaths resulting from backstreet abortions. Gro...