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  LIVE Open the menu News | Women's Rights Poland abortion laws: Woman’s death spurs calls for change Izabel’s case has intensified demands to loosen Poland’s laws, which are among the most restrictive in Europe. Thousands took to the streets after the death of Izabel, who was refused a termination [Wojtek Radwanski/AFP] By  Urooba Jamal Published On 1 Dec 2021 1 Dec 2021 If Anka Adamczyk were to ever have a child, she would leave Poland to give birth. “It’s … super scary,” the 35-year-old told Al Jazeera by phone from Warsaw. “The consequences are so horrible that I would really not take the risk.” KEEP READING ‘Letting women decide’: Activists hail Benin abortion vote US Supreme Court hears challenges to Texas abortion ban Poles protest strict abortion law after pregnant woman dies UN experts call on Iran to repeal ‘anti-abortion’ population law She is among the women who are now struggling to even consider childbirth because of the country’s strict abortion laws, which...

earch A woman of substance You Erum Noor Muzaffar  December 04, 2021 This week You! talks to publisher and writer Shahbano Alvi, who has come up with her debut collection of short stories … Share Next Story >>> Shahbano Alvi is a gifted writer. She writes short stories in English and Urdu. Her first two stories, ‘The Red Floor’ and ‘Bhalla Sahab’, which appeared in the international journal Kitaab in 2018 and 2019 respectively, created quite a stir among literary circles. Her first collection of English short stories ‘A Woman and the Afternoon Sun’ was published in the summer of 2021. While admiring Shahbano Alvi’s style of writing, Aamer Hussein, an acclaimed short story writer and critic, states, “Her fictions are brief: her voice is quiet, though often deceptively so. Her settings are frequently local and domestic, but her deftly painted backdrops announce the bigger stories of her region and her time.” in “This is a collection of short stories which sets out to explore...