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Juan
In Peru, a new bill related to women's health and pregnancy has sparked a national conversation.
The abortion issue in Peru has reemerged due to a bill that has been approved in the Special Committ...
Juliana, Global Voices Online
When a woman dies during pregnancy, childbirth or due to complications after delivery, it affects not only the family, but also the whole community.
These videos, by different human rights organiz...
Theresa, White Ribbon Alliance for
Women are dying in childbirth every day. Now more than ever, we need to truly make the effort to ensure that women everywhere have these rights.
Not since the United Nations declared 1975 The Inte...
Ana, Engender Health
Maternal mortality is an all too common global problem. Thousands of women are dying everyday--how do we solve the problem?
It just happened again. And it will happen at least once more before y...
Njeri, East African Publishers
Young artists use a new form of poetry known as Spoken Word to express the pain, frustration, joy, and heartache of love and sexuality.
If I could hold back
the inevitable
and push the
unpredicta...
Juliana, Global Voices Online
Birth mothers, adoptive mothers and adoptees: how to ensure rights for all.
The adoption of a child either within your own country or across borders creates opportunities for children and prospecti...
Gill, IPPF
I’d like to highlight the massive impact of maternal mortality and morbidity on two groups of women – young women and women living with HIV.
They have much in common because they so often lack...
Daniel, DC Publications SB
Humanitarian activist mothers in Asia are becoming icons for human rights causes worldwide. What does a woman sacrifice for the cause she fights for?
Irene Fernandez is a women and migrant rig...
Janna, Women Deliver
Women's lives are considered less important. Why else would the world allow over 560,000 women to die in pregnancy and childbirth every year?
Women around the world have had to struggle for decades...
Chantal, Parliament
To improve maternal health, we must see every woman first and foremost as a woman. Not as an African woman, a lower caste Indian woman, a discriminated Roma woman, a struggling Arab woman, or a "Third...
Daniel, DC Publications SB
Recent reports indicate that mothers have ended up being as much a casualty of the recession as the stock markets.
When the economies of world plummeted late last year, that “motherhood” would ...
Scilla, Global Voices
Though HIV/AIDS has decreased in almost all developed nations, it is on the rise in Japan.
Japan appears to be the only developed country where the number of HIV positive and AIDS infected people...
Juliana, Global Voices Online
Imagine a woman giving birth handcuffed and her feet shackled. Do pregnant women in prison deserve human rights, or can pregnancy become a way to avoid jail?
All over the world, pregnant women str...
Rocío, Global Voices
With influence from the Catholic Church, The Dominican Republic has made it illegal for women to terminate pregnancy under any circumstances.
After an intense debate, in which doctors, sociologis...
Daniel, DC Publications SB
Is it worth it to have a big family? Women from Singapore are debating the "Baby Bonus initiative", a government plan to raise declining birth rates.
Will a cash incentive make mothers want to hav...
Katja, UNFPA
If pregnant women have a right to live, why do we let more women die in pregnancy or childbirth than in wars?
This is one of the questions I have asked myself working on the topic of dead mothers ...
Juliana, Global Voices Online
Are human rights related to motherhood reserved only for married women? Philippine men and women are blogging about a new legislation related to a pregnant woman's right to study and work.
In Phi...
Bhumika, Freelancer
Maternal and child mortality rates in Asia is very high. Here is a video which talks about empowering women in Pakistan to lower maternal and child mortality rates.
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Amy
How do we avoid imposing our Western imperialist talk about “rights” on young women whose core beliefs diverge from ours?
Photo by Julia Kurc: Distributing cameras to the girls.
Earlier t...
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