The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies By Megha Rajagopalan and Qadri

One of the companies that buy sugar in Maharashtra, Coca-Cola, quietly met with Indian government leaders and sugar suppliers last month to discuss responsible harvesting.... That often ended the women’s periods and kept them in the fields, but such procedures can also have consequences including early menopause. Sugar producers and buyers have known about this abusive system for years, the investigation revealed.... One mill that profited off abuses even received a seal of approval from Bonsu

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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT Supported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENT We Spent Months With India’s Sugar Cutters.... We visited tiny villages and met laborers in their homes.... Some women sought the surgery to avoid menstruating in the fields, where workers sleep beneath tarps with no running water or toilets....

You’re reading the Morning Briefing: Asia Pacific Edition newsletter. Get what you need to know to start your day.... The court also set up a national task force to recommend safety measures to protect medics, who are often subject to violence and abuse. The police have arrested a 33-year-old man who was a volunteer at a police post at the hospital.... Rape and domestic violence are relatively common, and conviction rates are low....

An NHS hospital did not consistently have enough midwives to “ keep women and babies safe ”, a watchdog has found.An unannounced inspection was carried out of the Countess of Chester Hospital in February and March by the Care Quality Commission( CQC), England’s regulator of health and social care.In its report on Wednesday, it found the NHS trust requires improvement and served the trust with two warning notices requiring it to make urgent improvements. The inspection looked at medical care, sur

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Some conservatives ridiculed her choice of words, but AOC fiercely defended it.“ Trans, two-spirit, and non-binary people have always existed and will always exist, ” the congresswoman tweeted.... “ People can stay mad about that if they want, or they can grow up.” Ms Ocasio-Cortez had used the phrase on Tuesday during an interview with Anderson Cooper, who asked her about some recent comments by Texas governor Greg Abbott.... Trans men non-binary people can also menstruate, ” she wrote....

Masamitsu Iino, right, chairman of the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences' review panel on womb transplants, and Morito Monden, the association's president, hold a press conference in Tokyo on July 14, 2021.... In a report compiled by the association's review panel, it said such transplants will be limited to a small number of cases.... Current organ transplant laws in Japan do not permit uterine transplants from deceased donors, so a donor is likely to be the mother or another family me

A CHIHUAHUA saved her owner’s life by detecting her stage three cancer — jumping on her stomach and causing a huge lump to appear. Tess Robison, 41, would often see pet Lola staring at her as the hairdresser struggled for weeks with back pain and a bloated feeling.... A big lump came up so I went to get it check out.” Tests found she had ovarian cancer.... Being slim, it stuck out quite far.” The operation was followed by six rounds of chemotherapy and this month she hopes to get the all-clear