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Fashion designer honoured by Forbes uses sewing school to help tackle issue of menstrual poverty in Africa

With sanitary pads being out of reach for most women in Kenya, Maja Kotala from Chorzów has enlisted the help of fashion brands and students from her ‘Sewing Together’ school to make the free eco-friendly pads. Maja Kotala

With sanitary pads being out of reach for most women in Kenya, Maja Kotala from Chorzów has enlisted the help of fashion brands and students from her ‘Sewing Together’ school to make the free, renewable pads.

BBC names Oleśnica artist one of the world’s 100 most “inspiring and influential women” for her baby ‘therapy’ dolls.

Barbara Smolińska was chosen alongside acclaimed authors, Nobel Prize winners and a female Prime Minister for the lifelike dolls. Stunning in their detail, the ‘reborn sugar babies’ have won a raft of admirers, not least among women dealing with loss or trauma.

Inquiry finds irregularities at hospital where pregnant woman died

An inspection carried out by the National Health Fund (NFZ) into the death of a woman who died from pregnancy complications found numerous irregularities in the organisation, implementation and quality of patient services at the hospital that treated her.

Nationwide protests after death of pregnant woman

On Saturday afternoon a protest under the slogan "Not a single one more" set out from the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw after the death of a 30-year-old woman due to pregnancy complications.

Hospital suspends two doctors over pregnant woman's death

The management of a hospital in the southern Polish town of Pszczyna has suspended the contracts of the two doctors who were on duty when a pregnant woman died of sceptic shock in September, the hospital announced on Friday.

Opposition leader blames woman's death on 'in-human' abortion law

Donald Tusk, the leader of Poland's main opposition party, Civic Platform (PO), has said that “ideology” and an “in-human law” were responsible for the death of a pregnant woman who failed to get an abortion.

Oldest protestant church in Poland says women can now be ordained as priests and bishops

The Evangelical-Augsburg Church made the behind-closed-doors decision on Saturday during its Synod at the Lutheran Centre in Warsaw.

Thief loses out to running champ cop

A thief from Ostrołęka ran out of luck after being caught escaping from a store he had robbed by a marathon-winning policewoman.

Appeal launched to find Jewish woman who disappeared after her husband was executed for saving woman sold as a sex slave for bottle of vodka

Lidia Przerwa was last seen in 1947 when her husband was executed by firing squad over the deaths of three Soviet soldiers who had been transporting a woman they’d bought off her own husband.

Skeleton with bird skull in its mouth identified as 12-year-old Scandinavian girl from 17th century

Archaeologists working at the Tunel Wielki cave in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland in southeast Poland, say the girl with a chaffinch head in her mouth had come over with an army of invaders during the 1655 Swedish Deluge, a mid-17th century invasion and occupation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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