Plan International, the charity which champions the rights and welfare of orphans and other vulnerable children across the globe, is just one of the many organisations which have welcomed a commitment by the 54 leaders of the Commonwealth to focus on efforts to end the early and forced marriage of millions of girls around the Commonwealth...

Ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia, the Royal Commonwealth Society and Plan International have issued a joint call for action in a new policy paper...

Change is hard Even exciting changes can prove difficult...

UN reports state that sub-Saharan Africa contains little more than 10 percent of the world’s population and two thirds of the overall population in this region are people living with HIV (UNAIDS 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic)...

Mandatory retirement is a political hot potato today People are living longer and staying healthier thanks to the advances in medical services...

Many women see induced menopause as the end of their life The thought of not being able to have children is often seen as a death sentence to a younger woman who is forced to go through menopause...

When a person consciously tries to become more feminine, it is usually referred to as feminization Depending on the use, it can have several definitions...