by Ferrukh Faruqui | 3 Feb 2025 | Economy, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows, Women
Some believe the business of surrogacy commodifies women. Does everyone have the right to a biological baby or does surrogacy violate the rights of the child? 3D image of a human fetus inside a womb. (Credit: digitalgenetics/Getty images) This article was produced...
by Christianez Ratna Kiruba | 27 Jan 2025 | Environment, Health and Wellness, India, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows, World
Almost 60,000 die from snakebite each year in India, but only one facility is producing the venom needed to make the antivenom. A herpetologist milks the venom out of a snake at Kenya Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre (KSRIC) in Nairobi, Kenya, 5 April 2024....
by Christianez Ratna Kiruba | 10 Oct 2024 | Environment, Health and Wellness, India, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows
Online sales of pesticides helps farmers in places far from suppliers. Can we keep them out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them? A person pulls up an online site for buying pesticides. (Illustration by News Decoder) Warning: This article contains...
by Lizan Nijkrake | 27 Mar 2024 | Africa, Decoder Replay, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Women
Millions of girls around the world undergo a brutal and unnecessary surgery. Gambia, which banned the practice, is set to reverse course. Doctors in Somalia perform a repair surgery on a patient who had previously undergone female genital mutilation, 8 February 2022....
by Allison Daniel | 30 Oct 2023 | Health and Wellness
A million child deaths around the world can be prevented. It would take a big mobilization of health care workers and small packets of nutritional food. A doctor examines a child for malnutrition by measuring the mid-upper-arm-circumference. Credit: Mohammad Bash...