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...
(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: September 7, 2010) The Afghan government has frozen the assets for shareholders and borrowers at the troubled Kabul Bank. And also in Afghanistan, voters are...
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...
Trinidad and Tobago is a beautiful island paradise in the Caribbean with just over a million inhabitants. But the country is facing a growing problem: One third of the population...
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...
In this episode we follow Christine, a final-year student who fears she is pregnant. Early pregnancy forces 6,000 girls out of schooling in Uganda every year.
