A major health authority has pulled its recent report citing the “benefits” of first-cousin marriage after it sparked widespread outrage. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) came under fire after ...

The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) has come under fire for potentially prioritizing cultural sensitivity over significant health concerns after it published a report last week ...

The Health Secretary Wes Streeting has asked for an apology after NHS England’s Genomics Education Programme published a report suggesting there were benefits to first-cousin marriage. The guidance, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs. Since 17-year-old Rehana was a ...

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) came under fire after publishing guidance that experts claim “promoted” inter-family unions, despite well-documented concerns about the increased risk of birth ...

(CNN) — Since 17-year-old Rehana was a child, she dreamt of supporting her family. An only child to parents struggling to make ends meet in Bangladesh, she says, “I always thought, I have no brother, ...

When Nigerian fintech giant Interswitch announced in 2022 that it would begin paying a spousal allowance to the partners of ...

The stakes are not abstract. The Times last weekend reported that a rapist “married” his 15-year-old victim in a sharia ...

NHS England quietly removed controversial first cousin marriage guidance after political backlash, despite knowing about ...