Making Outpatient Abortion Services a Reality
This is the third in a series of posts coming from the Global Maternal Health Conference in New Delhi, the first conference of its kind. According to EngenderHealth‘s Maternal Health Task Force’s website, ‘Every minute, a woman dies from complications related to childbirth or pregnancy. While most maternal deaths are preventable, poor health services and [...]
...read moreLocal Context Matters to Women’s Lives: A Report from Delhi
This is the second in a series of posts coming from the Global Maternal Health Conference in New Delhi, the first conference of its kind. According to EngenderHealth‘s Maternal Health Task Force’s website, ‘Every minute, a woman dies from complications related to childbirth or pregnancy. While most maternal deaths are preventable, poor health services and [...]
...read moreGlobal Maternal Health Conference 2010: Empowering the Next Generation
This is the first in a series of posts coming from the Global Maternal Health Conference in New Delhi, the first conference of its kind. According to EngenderHealth‘s Maternal Health Task Force’s website, ‘Every minute, a woman dies from complications related to childbirth or pregnancy. While most maternal deaths are preventable, poor health services and [...]
...read moreOpening up opportunities for women in an Indian prison
Last month, Yerawada prison in Maharashtra, India, became in part an open prison. Prachi Pinglay of the BBC reports that ‘women will soon be allowed to roam the premises and farmland in relative freedom’. Inspector General (Prisons) Uddhav Kamble explains that ‘Selected women inmates will mostly work in fields during the day and return to [...]
...read moreExciting times for women’s political representation in India.
From the New York Times (link via this ain’t livin’): The upper house of India’s Parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would amend the Constitution to reserve one-third of the seats in India’s national and state legislatures for women, after the measure stirred two days of political chaos that could whittle the governing coalition’s majority [...]
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