Opinion

Indifference to literature?

It is hard to believe that books can still provoke demonstrations and death threats but in mid-February the 75-year-old Azeri novelist Akram Aylisli became the target of public anger reminiscent of the Rushdie fatwa.

The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act needs to be fully implemented

Dear Editor, Eighteen years ago, in the context of a health crisis in which septic and incomplete abortions accounted for the third and eighth largest causes respectively of admission to public hospitals in Guyana, a network of women’s groups, health professionals and human rights activists engaged in a wide-ranging debate advocating for legislation to address unsafe and unregulated abortions.

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