Thousands of poor workers migrate to the sugar cutting farms in India to earn money with up to a 6-month contract for the backbreaking task of cutting sugar cane. Women are unpaid and suffer possible loss of a job if they are off work due to having their monthly cycle. As a result, thousands of women, even young teenagers, pay for expensive hysterectomies that leave them in debt.

It has been reported that in Kigoma Region, Western of Tanzania there is a wave of women, particularly those who live without men in their homes, are at risk of having their homes broken into by unknown men and then being raped or, if they resist, facing violent retaliation.

“The BBC has been flooded with criticism and protests after deciding to scrap free TV licences for approximately 3.7 million over-75s and deprive them of a “companion and window on the world” - with one petition gathering more than 310,000 signatures within just hours,” according to the Express and many other UK newspapers on the 12th of June. One veteran of World War 2, Victor Gregg, said: “The people they’re…

3rd June, all 9 Muslim ministers in President Maithripala Sirisena’s cabinet resigned from their posts, after accusing the Sri Lankan government of failing to ensure the safety of the country’s Muslim community from back clash attacks that followed the Easter Sunday bombings. The resignations came after thousands of people led by hardline communal Buddhist monks and groups demonstrated in the town of Kandy,