A woman in South Africa has told the BBC how she was sterilised without her consent after she gave birth at the age of 17, and only learned about it 11 years later when she tried to have another ...

An increasing number of bioethicists are raising concerns that young childless women requesting sterilisation as means of birth control are facing unfair obstacles. It is argued that these obstacles ...

Soon after taking power in 1933, the Nazis introduced a program of involuntary sterilisation of those German citizens who they considered unworthy of reproduction. These were predominantly, but not ...

Bathinda to launch Punjab's first animal birth control center for street dogs, aiming to reduce the canine population and dog ...

Other countries that have had forced sterilisation policies include Germany, Sweden, and the US. They have also apologised and paid reparations to surviving victims. Nihon Hidankyo, a group of ...

As the theme of this month revolves around contraception, I find myself compelled to ask for your guidance regarding sterilisation. My wife and I are both in our late thirties with two wonderful ...

On February 28, UNAIDS issued a statement on forced and coerced sterilisation of women living with HIV noting that women around the world have been fighting for decades for the recognition of their ...

It is common in the legal commentary to refer to child sterilisation as if it is a gender neutral issue, [1] but the overwhelming majority of sterilisations and certainly all the cases heard by ...

According to a study by Swissmedic, there are deficiencies in the disinfection, sterilisation, packaging and storage of ...