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Most European men would try new contraception methods if available
Most men would embrace contraception designed for them, such as on-demand pills taken before sex, a daily hormonal gel or a thermal silicone ring, but funding gaps are keeping these products years away from pharmacy shelves.
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Iran
Four years since Mahsa Amini, rights groups warn crackdown persists
Human rights groups said those who directed the violent suppression of the 2022 protests still control Iran's security apparatus, as Kurdish businesses shuttered across her home region and the UN Special Rapporteur said four years of state violence had failed to extinguish the resistance.
Iran
Why Iranian women freeze eggs they may never be allowed to use
Single women in Iran can legally store frozen eggs but cannot use them without a husband, leaving many paying two months' salary for a procedure whose annual storage costs have quadrupled since 2022, in a country simultaneously pushing pronatalist policies and experiencing a 9% drop in births.
Iran
Iran executes woman who claimed self-defence against sexual assault
Marzieh Nieri, 23, was executed at Qazvin Central Prison after a court rejected her account of wounding a man who had attempted to assault her, bringing the number of women executed in Iran since the start of 2026 to at least 14.
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