Today, Women’s eNews published a story called, “Water Is Key to Reducing Maternal Mortality.”
Water use has grown at more than twice the rate of the world’s population over the past century, mostly for agricultural purposes, according to the 2009 United Nations Millennium Development Goals Report. This has left 884 million people at risk for–or already [...]

Below is the speech delivered by Imane Khachani, MD, Msc, from the Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights for the High-Level Meeting at the International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action.

Dr Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, Mr Bert Koenders, Minister for Development and Cooperation of the Netherlands, Mr Tedros [...]

Today is Blog Action Day! It’s an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. This year the focus of the day is Climate Change. As we mentioned last week, [...]

Last week, the Population Reference Bureau launched the annual World Population Data Sheet, highlighting country, regional, and global population, health, and environment data and patterns. This year’s data sheet places special emphasis on youth. “The great bulk of today’s 1.2 billion youth—nearly 90 percent—are in developing countries,” said Carl Haub, PRB senior demographer and co-author of the data sheet. Eight [...]

The First Lady of Zambia, Thandiwe Banda, has called for concerted efforts among stakeholders to reduce cases of maternal mortality and morbidity in her own country.
Speaking at State House yesterday, where she received three-ambulance bikes worth more than K8 million from Zambike Zambia, Mrs. Banda lamented the fact that every four hours a woman dies [...]

Last week Bono spoke at the California Women’s Conference, and he passed along some of these stats about women in Africa:
-Nearly two-thirds of adults with HIV in Africa are women. Young women (age 15 to 24) in South Africa accounted for around 90% of new HIV infections in 2007.
-In Africa, the likelihood of a woman [...]

I just watched the trailer for this moving documentary, A Powerful Noise. The film profiles three different women: Hanh, an HIV-positive widow in Vietnam; Nada, a survivor of the Bosnian war; and Jacqueline, who works the slums of Bamako, Mali. 
[The film] takes you inside the lives of these women to witness their daily challenges and their [...]

The Campaign to End Fistula, led by UNFPA, has just announced that they’ll quadruple in size and work in 45 countries (up from 12). There are at least 2 million women in Africa, Asia and the Arab region living with obstetric fistula and 50,000 to 100,000 new cases developing each year. While obstetric fistula is [...]

Today, October 15, is Blog Action Day. And here at Women Deliver, we’re psyched to get involved and be a part of this amazing movement. Today, thousands of bloggers will unite to discuss a single issue – poverty. The aim is to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web! And poverty is something [...]