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Let us document brutalities to change the world

by Angeline Martyn on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 11:27 - 1 Comment

As I read the New York Times this weekend I was pleased to see a contribution from Fatima Hassan, a recent graduate of Stanford University and the 2008 winner of the Americans for UNFPA Student Award for the Health and Dignity of Women. Last year Fatima travelled to Uganda & Rwanda to visit UNFPA [...]

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Make His Maternal Instinct the Norm

by Angeline Martyn on Thursday, July 23, 2009 14:22 - 0 Comments

Thank you to Nick Kristof for drawing attention, once again, to the urgent need to end maternal death and life altering pregnancy related complications like obstetric fistula. See July 19th New York Times article, “His Maternal Instinct.” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19kristof.html
An estimated two million women are living with fistula in developing countries, with an additional 50,000 to [...]

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