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Activists urge U.S. states to pass laws banning FGM

By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rights activists have called on all U.S. states to adopt laws banning female genital mutilation (FGM), one year after the United States committed itself at a summit in London to eradicating the practice. The United States was one of more than 30 countries to sign a charter for the elimination of FGM and forced marriage, at home and abroad, at the

Mother of all battles in scarcity-hit Venezuela: having a baby

By Alexandra Ulmer MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Her belly bulging, Hilda Angarita hauls herself to five different drug stores in the sweltering Venezuelan city of Maracaibo until she finally finds post-cesarean patches. Over the previous nine months, Angarita’s life has been consumed with searching for vitamins, calcium, diapers and medicines amid widespread shortages in recession-hit Venezuela. The shortages are compounded in places like Maracaibo, a western city near Colombia.

Mother of all battles in scarcity-hit Venezuela: having a baby

By Alexandra Ulmer MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Her belly bulging, Hilda Angarita hauls herself to five different drug stores in the sweltering Venezuelan city of Maracaibo until she finally finds post-cesarean patches. Over the previous nine months, Angarita’s life has been consumed with searching for vitamins, calcium, diapers and medicines amid widespread shortages in recession-hit Venezuela. The shortages are compounded in places like Maracaibo, a western city near Colombia.