These women are alleged witches and live in the Northern Region of Ghana. They are picking pebbles and sieving dust mixed with maize, soya bean and other grains gathered from the floor of the town ...

A recent ground-breaking series of reports in the science journal The Lancet unpacks what commercial determinants of health are, and how they affect public health. It uses a new, broader definition of ...

MWANZA: Mwanza Regional Commissioner Saidi Mtanda has urged Tanzanians to preserve their cultural heritage while rejecting ...

Breast ironing, also called breast flattening, is a deeply harmful practice affecting millions of adolescent girls, primarily in West and Central Africa. According to research by the Feinstein ...

President Museveni has called on communities to preserve cultural traditions that promote social well-being while abandoning or modifying practices that pose a threat to public health, particularly ...

Restrictive practices in mental health settings—such as physical restraint and seclusion—are meant to be a last resort, used only when patients pose a risk to themselves or others. In 2021 and 2022 ...

The EU continues to promote fair tax competition and address harmful tax practices, both within the EU and worldwide. EU finance ministers today agreed on a revised code of conduct for business ...

Nigeria must end obnoxious practices and challenges faced by widows, Chairman of O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation (OBLBF), Dr. Seinye Lulu-Briggs, has said. Lulu-Briggs, whose husband died in 2018, said ...

Research confirms the adverse effects of social media on mental health. Shutterstock A recent ground-breaking series of reports in the science journal The Lancet unpacks what commercial determinants ...