More Than 600 People in Stockholm March Against Maternal Mortality
The Unite for Women campaign was launched by RFSU, the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education, to shine a spotlight on maternal mortality. This past International Women’s Day, March 8th, the campaign culminated with more than 600 people marching with prams to show solidarity and support to all the women all over the world who have not had the same possibilities to choose a pregnancy and have access to safe maternal health care as mothers in Sweden...
Today, when we think of Afghanistan, a cauldron of chaos comes to mind: massive international counterinsurgency and counternarcotics operations, countless NGOs struggling to maintain neutrality and operational integrity amidst the militarization of aid and development, and the sheer deprivation of dignity suffered by the overly-occupied Afghan people, among other such indictments of the international community's historic and present-day involvement. While these issues continually make above-the-fold headlines, today is International Women's Day (IWD), and I wish to highlight yet another travesty in Afghanistan: maternal mortality...
