Midwife Suzanne Saunders-Blundell abandons her high-tech maternity unit in Britain to work in the capital of Liberia -- the third poorest country on Earth, where one in 12 women dies...
The West African nation of Nigeria has the second highest number of maternal deaths in the world. More than thirty-six thousand women die here each year trying to have babies...
The images of Haiti's January 2010 earthquake disaster shocked the world. Some of the first footage of the catastrophe was captured by the television crew of the UN Mission in...
In Jamaica, teen mothers face a bleak reality, shunned from society and barred from schools. A new initiative is offering them new hope, while educating adolescents on family planning and...
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, calls for more funding directed to the UN Millennium Development Goals that benefit women. He emphasizes the importance of providing...
One in eight Afghan women dies during pregnancy or childbirth. To save money, Qurban-Bibi was taken by her male relatives to a local market to give birth, instead of to...
Taj Bibi was nine months pregnant when the Pakistani army offensive raided her Swat Valley village forcing her and her family to flee to Yar Hussain refugee camp. Taj Bibi...
