Posts Tagged with ‘Motherhood & Human Rights’
Katja, UNFPA
This will be a day to remember. If you haven’t already read the report Trends in Maternal Mortality, I encourage you to do so.
According to this new report, maternal deaths worldwide drop by thir...
Christian, UNFPA
Submit a question and you might hear it answered by experts at an upcoming UN TV debate.
Is culture preventing women from having equal rights? Can women work to change their culture's harmful pract...
Joshua, UNICEF Innovations
I believe we have yet to find a good answer to the question: what does open data means for the long-term social and economic development of poor and marginalized communities?
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Howard, UNFPA
Though it's important to reduce maternal mortality worldwide, let's not forget to address the needs of mothers in the U.S.
The Lancet recently released news that the global maternal mortality has d...
Senator Bill, Save the Children
On Mother's Day, Americans recognize the amazing women whose dedication has shaped our families and lives. But let's not forget to honor mothers worldwide.
They nurture the future by giving child...
Mary, Co-Founder, All Our Lives
Though many politicians in the U.S. believe that maternal healthcare is unnecessary, maternal healthcare should be universal and guaranteed for every woman.
Last year, the US debate over health ref...
Claire, Ashoka
A new technological platform called Ushahidi could be used to help women in labor experiencing complications all over the world.
As mobile and web technologies become increasingly accessible to tho...
Claire, Ashoka
Though many mistakenly believe maternal health to only be an issue pertaining to women, it's an issue that society as a whole needs to address.
When we talk about maternal health, it’s easy to ca...
Daniel, DC Publications SB
A teenaged mother in Singapore discusses her decision to see her pregnancy through.
The one person who helped her through the experience? Her mother. Watch on!
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Elisa, Designmatters atArtCenter
Art and policy joined forces as the Art Center College of Design launched a campaign to spread awareness.
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As a community of visual...
Bhumika, Freelancer
In this video I talk about Nepal's high maternal mortality rate. Here's a quote from the video:
Unless the Nepalese Government and the people decide that maternal mortality is an issue of national im...
Jane, 34 Million Friends of UNF
A response to the blog-post "Are pregnant women expendable?"
Everything we talk about, maternal mortality, the breaking of promises such as those made at Cairo in 1994, the lack of family planning ...
Jillian C., Global Voices Online
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Aicha Ech Chenna has just been awarded the world's largest faith-based pr...
Lisa, Governess Films
"The baby is not breathing". Poor women and their babies are dying in childbirth because of a lack of resources. This film captures one Nigerian woman's story.
The above is Lo...
Bhumika, Freelancer
In some places, caste discrimination continues to plague Indian mothers. Indian women are now standing up for their rights.
Caste system, which is still widely practiced in Hindu communities in ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Janna, Women Deliver
It's time to vote and decide who should win the Guardian Achievements in International Development Award. Who is your favorite candidate? My vote goes to Dr. Fred Sai. Here's why.
“Ask for what ...
Deni, Americans for UNFPA
Typically when women make a little money they invest it in their families (up to 90% by some estimates). When coffers wealthy nations run dry, investment in women’s issue is usually one of the first...
Anika, Americans for UNFPA
In June the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, announced a $20 billion initiative to fund maternal and health survival programs. It sounds like a lot of money and then the sobering qualifier h...
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