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Developments and high penetration rates of communication and information technologies have been fuelling the expansion of digital platforms specialised in home care. Use of algorithms and business models in Spain

Starting from the latest news, Yasmine Ergas explains how the Texas Heartbeat Act creates a scorched earth around any woman who might attempt to, or has had, an abortion.

How women’s tissue and labour are bought and sold in modern biotechnology

For a fuller comparative understanding of surrogacy, it is beneficial to contemplate U.S. surrogates’ point of view. Their views, although consequential, are often ignored by both opponents and proponents of this practice

A transnational research project, funded by the EU and based on interviews in five countries, reveals who are the buyers of paid sex 

Pointing the finger at those who buy sex doesn’t improve sex workers condition. Although it doesn’t exist just one juridic model to regulate prostitution, several studies underline the benefits of sex market’s regulation, instead of criminalizing clients. Here an analysis of the arguments in favour of legalization.

With the new law approved on December, Paris is leading the front of "abolitionist" countries. But what does that word mean? And how the repressive policies have changed? The new French law, at the center of the debate, focuses on the criminalization of the client. Steps and setting of the new law

Sex workers or victims? The debate on prostitution poses, in a new form, pivotal questions: sex - but also pregnancy and care work - can be considered works, and thus treated like any other object of exchange? And the old categories of contract and status are enough to regulate the novelties in terms of families, habits, society and so on? How can we draw a line between working and being?

Female genital mutilation is still perceived in many countries as a symbolic step in the construction of gender identity. The practice exists also in immigration countries. But alternative rites are being fostered. Interview with Nafissatou Diop, coordinator of the Unicef and Unfpa programme "accelerating change"

Why women's vote will make the difference in Us presidential election

To what extent parts of our bodies can be treated as ownable and tradeable objects? Problems and ethical dilemmas of "commodification".