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The AP recently reported that activists from more than 50 civil service organizations are lobbying the Ugandan Supreme Court to declare maternal mortality a violation of women’s rights. These organizations are receiving strong support from Ugandan women…

UNICEF released The State of the World’s Children 2012 last week, reporting on the serious risks children and pregnant women face in our rapidly urbanizing world. While cities historically offer greater access to infrastructure like schools, clinics, and…

By Amanda Klasing Women’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch Sixteen-year-old Florence was an orphan doing domestic work when the January 2010 earthquake hit Haiti. She moved with the family she worked for to a displacement camp, where her…

IRIN, the humanitarian news service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, cites a preliminary Nepal Demographic Health Survey finding that gender discrimination and neglect are fueling malnutrition in the isolated mid-western…

Lily Boisson of CBC News writes that Somali women fleeing drought and famine in their home country face sexual and gender-based violence as they journey to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Women traveling to the camps with only their children and few…

Benjamin Mason Meier and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum Abstract The United Nations recently launched a US $40 billion Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health to accelerate progress on the Millennium Development Goals related to improving the health…