On Monday, October 1st, the new High Level Task Force will be launched as part of the goals established at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo two decades ago. The Task Force, which is comprised of 26 eminent government, civil, and private-sector leaders and is chaired by Former Presidents Tarja Halonen (Finland) and Joaquim Chissano (Mozambique), will work to promote the ICPD goals in cooperation with other UN agencies, particularly UNFPA, to ensure that the promise of Cairo is realized. Read more...
Updates
High Level Task Force to be Launched as Part of ICPD
September 27th, 2012
Turning Recommendations Into Reality
September 26th, 2012
By: Rachel Wilson; Originally posted on PATH Blog
This blog post is published in collaboration with a campaign led by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in support of Every Woman Every Child.
Medicines, resuscitators, contraceptives—they’re all essential tools with the potential to save lives. But in developing countries, too often these commodities and others are in short supply or not available at all. Read more...
Committed to Every Woman Every Child
September 26th, 2012
By: The CORE Group
This blog is published in collaboration with a larger campaign spearheaded by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and conducted by Heads of State and Government; Heads of U.N. Agencies; CEO’s; Leaders of Civil Society Organizations; and other global leaders who have demonstrated their leadership in the health field, in support of Every Woman Every Child. Learn more at www.everywomaneverychild.org.
CORE Group is committed to supporting the Every Woman Every Child campaign’s goal to save the lives of 16 million women and children by 2015. As a global health network organization, CORE Group exponentially saves lives by bringing together its member NGOs, associate organizations and partners working all over the world to develop solutions, best practices, and technical tools and resources to improve maternal and child health. Read more...
Cada Mujer, Cada Niño
September 25th, 2012
By: Julio Frenk and Ana Langer; Originally posted in Reforma.
Desde 2010, la salud de las mujeres y los niños ha recibido una atención global sin precedentes, en gran medida gracias al movimiento Cada mujer, cada niño, cuyo compromiso es salvar 16 millones de vidas a nivel mundial. Este movimiento surgió a iniciativa del Secretario General de la ONU con el fin de conjuntar las voluntades de todos los sectores sociales para hacer frente a una inaceptable situación de injusticia, sufrimiento e inseguridad: la muerte por causas prevenibles de millones de mujeres y niños. Read more...
Achieving Results for Every Woman and Every Child
September 25th, 2012
By: Michel Sidibé; Originally posted on Huffington Post Impact
The past two years have been significant for women's and children's health for many reasons. The unprecedented global momentum towards saving the lives of 16 million women and children generated by the Every Woman Every Child movement is among the most remarkable. Read more...
Every Woman Every Child
September 25th, 2012
Originally posted on The Children's Project International
This blog is published in collaboration with a larger campaign spearheaded by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and conducted by Heads of State and Government; Heads of U.N. Agencies; CEO’s; Leaders of Civil Society Organizations; and other global leaders who have demonstrated their leadership in the health field, in support of Every Woman Every Child. Learn more at www.everywomaneverychild.org.
Tomorrow morning, members of the U.N. General Assembly will convene in New York and mark the final three year push to meet the Millennium Development Goals by their 2015 deadline. For the past two years, The Children’s Project International has supported a number of projects and initiatives which daily advance the cause of eradicating extreme poverty and substantially improving maternal and children’s health. Read more...
Keeping Our Promises to Women and Children: Roadblocks to Ending Maternal and Child Deaths
September 24th, 2012
By: Carole Presern, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; Originally posted on Huffington Post Impact
In three short years we will reach the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
The international community has certainly made incredible inroads since these targets were set by world leaders in the year 2000 to significantly slash extreme poverty and disease. Read more...
Corporate Buzz: Philips and CNBC Africa Release Series Highlighting MDGs 4 and 5
August 30th, 2012
By: Harshi Hettige, Women Deliver
Philips Electronics is continuing its work to strengthen healthcare in Africa, after recently showcasing clinical solutions for maternal and child care across Africa. In early August Philips and CNBC Africa partnered to release a new series called ‘African Dialogues.’ The series provides insight into the issues at the intersection of social welfare and business in Africa. Read more...
Partnering with Youth for International Youth Day 2012
August 9th, 2012
August 12th marks the 4th anniversary of International Youth Day, an event organized and adopted by the United Nations. Recognizing the growing role and importance of young people as stakeholders in global development, this year’s theme, “Building a Better World: Partnering with Youth,” is a call to action for organizations and individuals to develop partnerships and involve youth, especially in the areas of education, including sexual and reproductive health; political inclusion; employment; and protection of rights. Read more...
Post-2015 High-Level Panel Announced
August 1st, 2012
Yesterday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the 26 civil society, private sector and government leaders who will serve on a High-Level Panel to advise on the global development agenda beyond 2015. President Yudoyono of Indonesia, President Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom will serve as co-chairs. The panel’s first meeting will be at the end of September, and it will submit a report to the Secretary-General in the first half of 2013. Read more...
After the Summit: Down to Earth
July 31st, 2012
By: Tewodros Melesse, International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF); Originally posted on RH Reality Check
On the day of the London Summit on Family Planning, I left the hall a little late. The seats were already stacked away, the stage was bare, the screens had gone, most of the delegates had departed, and the cleaners were sweeping up discarded order papers and agendas. It might have never happened. Read more...
Corporate Buzz: Agroamerica and UN Explore Efforts to Support MDG 5
July 19th, 2012
By: Smita Gaith, Women Deliver
In Guatemala, where about 120,000 girls and women die from pregnancy-related causes each year, the agricultural company Agrofruit is exploring ways to reduce maternal mortality. The company specializes in growing tropical fruits, and is based in Guatemala.
The efforts began in 2011, when Agroamerica teamed up with a team of American doctors from the University of Colorado to explore the southwestern area known as “trifinio,” where three provinces called San Marcos, Retalhuleu and Quetzaltenango converge. Read more...
Frontline Health Workers Are Key to Meeting Family Planning Needs Worldwide
June 28th, 2012
By: Oying Rimon; Originally posted on Impatient Optimist
Around the world, frontline health workers are often the first link to lifesaving care and supplies, and in some cases they are the only link for families and communities in rural and impoverished areas. This is also where most of the world’s unmet need for family planning resides. More than 200 million women in developing countries want to delay or avoid pregnancy but lack access to modern methods of contraception. Read more...
Women’s Major Group Final Statement on the Outcomes of Rio+20
June 27th, 2012
The Women’s Major Group (WMG), representing 200 civil society women’s organizations from all around the world, is greatly disappointed in the results of the Rio+20 conference. We believe that the governments of the world have failed both women and future generations.
Women’s Rights Rolled Back
Two years of negotiations have culminated in a Rio+20 outcome that makes almost no progress for women’s rights and rights of future generations in sustainable development. The Women’s Major Group has worked around the clock to maintain women’s rights and commitments to gender equality that have already been agreed to, but gaining affirmation of those rights left no time for real progress and commitments to moving toward the future we need. Read more...
The Lancet and Global Partners Collaborate on Midwifery Care Efforts
June 27th, 2012
The Lancet, a scientific journal, has joined an international team of 35 researchers in creating a special series on midwifery for May/June 2013.
The collaboration, which is supported by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will examine important areas of reproductive, maternal and newborn care that are within the scope of midwifery services, and increase the evidence available to guide and promote development of midwifery services, in order to improve maternal, newborn, and infant health outcomes. Read more...
Live from Rio+20, Day Two: “Favelas and Protests”
June 22nd, 2012
By: Vicky Markham, Center for Environment and Population (CEP); Originally posted on RH Reality Check
This morning I ventured the opposite direction from Rio Centro where the UN Rio+20 negotiations are taking place, and travelled with colleagues to the Cachoeirinha (I was told it means “waterfall”) Favela in Rio de Janeiro. These shantytowns are quite common in Rio, well over one million strong, located within and around the city limits. This particular one has 37,000 residents. Read more...
Live from Rio+20, Day One: Women and Reproductive Health
June 22nd, 2012
By: Vicky Markham, Center for Environment and Population (CEP); Originally posted on RH Reality Check
June 18, 2012, From Rio: This week begins the major UN Rio+20 “Earth Summit,” and I’ve just arrived at the sprawling “Rio Centro” complex where the official UN negotiations and many non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) side-events are taking place. While here for the duration of the meeting, I’ll be covering women and reproductive health (RH) issues as relate to the official UN proceedings, the NGO perspectives, and global south women’s personal stories on how Rio+20 touches their lives. Read more...
Why Women’s Needs Must be Part of the Conversation at Rio
June 21st, 2012
By: Suzanne Ehlers and Michael Brune; Originally posted on Grist
The outcome document for this week’s Rio+20 summit is 49 pages long. Some 23,917 words.
Women were mentioned in less than 0.01 percent of the text. And only two of the 283 sections addressed women’s needs for family planning.
At first, this might not seem like a big deal. It’s easy to think of Rio as a purely environmental conference, dealing with issues related to sustainable development and a green economy. It’s easy to say that Rio is not about “women’s issues.” Read more...
Rio+20: Highlighting the Voices of Women
June 21st, 2012
By: Corine Milano; Originally Posted on World Pulse
World Pulse delivered the voices of grassroots women leaders to the UN’s 2nd Landmark Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Of the 55 statements from women in 28 different countries, eight recommendations were highlighted on the website, exposing that sustainable development must tackle issues ranging from sanitation to land rights to economic empowerment for women. Read more...
Women and Sustainability: Rio+20 Information and Resources
June 20th, 2012
Women Deliver is collaborating with Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet project to highlight the important role of women, youth, and sexual and reproductive health and rights in sustainable development at this week’s Rio+20 conference, June 20-22.
Today marked the official start of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as the Rio+20 Summit, during which global leaders will discuss how to reduce poverty while preserving the environment. Discussions will also focus on a future sustainable development framework, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which could eventually replace the Millennium Development Goals in 2015.
Women Deliver and Worldwatch are following the action in Rio – please visit us for interviews, press statements, and other resources on discussions and activities at the Rio+20 Summit. Read more...