UN agencies have reported that nearly 6,500 adolescent girls die in childbirth annually in South Asia, urging priority be given to the health of girls and adolescents in the region.) Experts from the agencies discussed this issue at a two-day regional dialogue on adolescent pregnancy jointly organized by SAARC, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia … Read more
A former cricket star has avoided jail after admitting to assault and bullying in a bid to have his charges dismissed on mental health grounds. Michael Johnathan Slater, 52, appeared at Manly Local Court on Wednesday morning to plead guilty to three counts of common assault, intimidation, attempted stalking, use of a shuttle with the … Read more
If things had turned out the way I intended on that bleak afternoon in my teens, when I collapsed on the bathroom floor, I would not have lived past 14. After another horrible day in the endless hell that was my adolescence, which saw me mercilessly tormented by the kids at my football-mad boys’ school, … Read more