Archive: Thu Oct 2015

By: Rima Jolivet, Maternal Health Technical Director, Maternal Health Task Force Human rights are at the center of the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health and figure prominently in the new SDG framework.…

By: Katie Millar, Senior Project Manager, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Empowerment of women has been a theme throughout the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference (GMNHC). Without the ability to choose and…

By: Sandeep Bathala, Senior Program Associate, Maternal Health Initiative, Wilson Center Maternal mortality causes 56,000 deaths every year in India, accounting for 20 percent of maternal deaths around the world. Women who are born into the lower…