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A new magazine aims to provide a voice for adult adoptees around the country. Many of the magazine’s contributors are from Minnesota, a state with a rich history of international adoption. Minnesota Public Radio’s Laura Yuen reports.

African women who want to use birth control face many obstacles. Among them: their male partners. An organization in Kenya is engaging men in conversations about women’s reproductive choices.

In Africa’s child-centered cultures, women who cannot give birth often endure stigma, scorn, and social isolation. A rare clinic in South Africa offers high-tech fertility treatment to those of low-income.

The World’s multimedia producer Sonia Narang is wrapping up a three-week trip to Nepal where she’s been reporting on the difficult lives of women who still abide by centuries-old traditions.

In Chinese tradition, women who give birth are supposed to spend a month in confinement with their babies. It’s a tradition that many Chinese women still observe.