Displaced women in eastern Ethiopia stand up to pressure, stigma over family planning
Published on: Friday 02 August 2019
UNITED NATIONS, New York/SOMALI REGION, Ethiopia – Trik Dulene knows all about bullying and coercion when it comes to a woman’s reproductive choices. Although she and her husband agreed to use family planning after their two daughters were born, her in-laws demanded she give them more grandchildren. The pressure eventually broke apart her marriage: When her daughters were 12 and 15, her husband left them.
News source: https://www.unfpa.org/news/displaced-women-eastern-ethiopia-stand-pressure-stigma-over-family-planning
