The incidence of breast cancer is increasing globally, affecting younger women, especially those under 50 years of age. The increase in breast cancer is attributed to factors such as delaying marriages, delaying childbearing, not having children or having one child, and unhealthy lifestyles. In addition, there is a trend of not breastfeeding among young mothers,…
News reports said that residential buildings in the northern city of Kharkiv had been hit, killing one and injuring 16, quoting the city’s mayor. Four children were wounded, with images posted to social media showing extensive damage and a body visible lying on the floor. The UN’s Denise Brown said that international law must be…
Tokyo: Experts say that women who suffer from depression are more likely to develop heart disease than men. A study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) found that women with depression are more vulnerable to heart problems than men who have the same level of depression as women. Depression is…
Arizona: A new study has found that postmenopausal women who take vitamin D and calcium supplements have an increased risk of dying from heart disease. According to research published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, vitamin D and calcium supplements reduce the risk of dying from cancer by 7%, but also increase the risk…
— File photo You have often heard that 7 to 8 hours of sleep a day is essential to function optimally. However, this is not the case for women, rather women need more than 8 hours of sleep so that they can function better and smarter throughout the day. On the occasion of World Sleep…
Karachi: Psychologists say that the rate of mental illness is increasing in women in Pakistan as compared to men, but unfortunately, women neglect mental health due to the busyness of their private and professional lives. He expressed these views in a seminar on women’s mental health organized by Karwan Hayat on the occasion of International…
Released on Friday, coinciding with International Women’s Day, the data compiled by UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) shows that the pace of progress against FGM remains slow and woefully off track to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of ending the practice by 2030 (SDG 5, target 5.3). The global pace of decline worldwide would need to…
Here is a brief five-point guide to this high-profile UN event. 1. Pushing for action for eight decades The work of the Commission began in 1946, days after the UN General Assembly’s inaugural meetings heard former US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and part of the country’s delegation, read an open letter addressed to “the women…
Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council, Roza Otunbayeva, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG), said that recent arbitrary arrest of Afghan women for alleged Islamic dress code violations was having a chilling effect among the wider female population, “many of whom are now afraid to move in public,” she said. “The denial of women and…
The global proportion of women in the world’s voting chambers inched up to 26.9 per cent on the back of elections and appointments through the year, the international organization said in its latest report on Women in Parliament. The growth was similar to the increase in 2022, but slower than the two years prior, IPU…
