Category: Maternity & paternity rights

‘The children are not safe here’: the Nigerian couple fighting infanticide

In a few isolated communities in central Nigeria, some babies are believed to be bad omens. Olusola and Chinwe Stevens run a thriving home for babies at risk. But what happens when the families want them back?Esther...

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Millennial dads are experiencing something mums have known for a long time | Gaby Hinsliff

Men want to be active, engaged parents, but many are being torn apart by the competing demands of family and workCan men really have it all? It’s a ridiculous question, obviously; a loaded assumption that women spent years...

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Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’

The Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until nowThe year my body revolted, I read all 1,296 pages of War...

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Labour’s employment rights bill: what key changes will it bring?

Improvements to workers’ rights to include day-one universal sick pay and an end to zero-hours contracts and fire and rehireLabour’s employment rights bill is the biggest step towards enacting one of its key election...

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Labour’s workers’ rights plans can win over Tory and Reform voters, says TUC

Trade union leaders meet ministers for final talks on employment rights bill before unveiling on ThursdayLabour can use its overhaul of workers’ rights to win over disaffected Tory and Reform voters, the TUC has said, as...

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