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HealthExperts Warn of Rising Crisis as Global Female Prison Population Nears One Million

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Women held in a communal cell in the Philippines in 2006. Since 2000, the number of women imprisoned has grown by 57%. Photograph: Friedrich Stark/Alamy

Up to a million women worldwide are facing sexual violence and forced labour in prisons, where they are overlooked and forgotten, in what is being called a growing global crisis. Read More

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