Examiner.com Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Melinda Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation officially launched Saving Lives at Birth today during an event at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington DC. Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development...
Mary Robinson, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation It is also a day to reflect on what has not yet been delivered for women. Every day, 1500 women die while giving birth to a new life. Every year, over a quarter of a million women die from...
Melinda Gates, The Huffington Post Last month I sat down with a new mothers' group in Korogocho, a large slum in Nairobi, Kenya. We were talking about family planning, and I asked them, "Why do you want to plan the number and spacing of your children?"...
Yvonne Singh, Guardian.co.uk On Tuesday 8 March, the 100th anniversary of International women's day, more than a thousand activists will be attending a rally on Washington's Capitol Hill as part of a global round of celebratory activities, demanding a better future for some of the world's...
GAVI Alliance & the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Geneva, 8 March 2011 - Thankfully, women have more rights to health in 2011 than they did a century ago when the first International Women’s Day was celebrated. Yet, despite the progress, every year some 270,000 women...
Peter Moszynski, BMJ The UK Department for International Development has announced a major shake up of its aid programme in the wake of a comprehensive review of existing expenditure. Overall the aid budget will continue to rise, but the number of countries receiving aid directly will...
Emine Saner, Guardian.co.uk "Women have come a long way in the last 50 years. Much of this has been achieved despite, not because of, the attitude of powerful men," says Graca Machel, freedom fighter, education champion and tireless advocate for the rights of women and children....
UN News Centre 7 March 2011 – Women in rural areas have the potential to raise agricultural production to levels that would feed up to 150 million more of the world’s hungry people if they had equal access to the means of production, including land, financial...
Himanshi Dhawan They are the invisible driving force behind the India Shining story. Behind tall buildings, highways, swank city roads and government programmes, they sweat their way on. Yet, the 43.3 core workers in unorganized sector — of which women make up an overwhelming 95.9% —...
Health News, M&G Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday urged governments in Asia and the Pacific to step up efforts to improve health services for women in the region. The agency said there has been some progress in promoting women's rights but 'much more...
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