The practice of female sugarcane workers in Maharashtra state undergoing unnecessary hysterectomies, in part driven by a financial need to avoid sick days due to menstrual problems and pregnancy, still persists, allege campaigners, despite a state government-commissioned report in 2019 urging greater action to eradicate it.

The 20 million women of Afghanistan are prisoners. They cannot feel sunlight on their faces, they cannot speak, and they do not know if they will ever be free.
This is all thanks to the Taliban. And these are the men who von der Leyen is inviting for talks on migration. The EP says we regret this invite. But regret is not enough.
Until the women of Afghanistan can speak and be heard - the Taliban are welcome in The Hague, but not in Brussels.