A mother and baby at a post-op visit to the Fistula Hospital in Arba Minch, Ethiopia, in April 2010. A new report says more than one-third of women in four low-income countries in Africa and Asia were slapped, mocked, forcibly treated or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centers and suggests that such mistreatment occurs worldwide.

First published in the October 09, 2019, 8:53 p.m. edition

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