WRA Voices
- June 20, 2012
- Child Marriage: A Curse in the Name of Culture
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The United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health held a hearing on the issue of child marriage to present findings on the cultural tradition of marrying girls far too young to be brides, the complex barriers keeping this practice alive, and the solutions to stop child marriage. This testimony is submitted by Samjhana Phuyal an active member of the White Ribbon Alliance in Nepal (Safe Motherhood Network Federation) and Programme Officer for Rural Women Development and Unity Centre.
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- June 7, 2012
- World Health Assembly welcomes calls to address early marriage: It’s now time for WHO action
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On Friday, 25 May 2012, the World Health Assembly held a dialogue on child marriage with interventions from almost 30 countries from all six World Health Organization regions that highlighted the negative health and social impact from early marriage on adolescent girls and their families and communities, and welcomed the WHO Secretariat’s report and guidelines on preventing early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes in adolescents in developing countries.
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- May 25, 2012
- Activists and Advocates Ask the Ugandan Government Why Aren’t Dying Mothers a Priority?
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On 22nd May 2012 over 100 activists and advocates from different organizations including WRA Uganda, under the Coalition to end Maternal Mortality were joined by ordinary citizens, grassroots home based healthcare providers and media to march from Kamwokya, Kampala suburb through Kampala capital city streets to the Constitutional Court to handover a statement to the Registrar of the Court over the delayed ruling on a Constitutional Court Case Petition No. 16 of 2011on preventable maternal deaths.
They were there to ask why do women continue to die from preventable pregnancy and childbirth related causes....
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- Activists and Advocates Ask the Ugandan Government Why Aren’t Dying Mothers a Priority?
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On 22nd May 2012 over 100 activists and advocates from different organizations including WRA Uganda, under the Coalition to end Maternal Mortality were joined by ordinary citizens, grassroots home based healthcare providers and [1]media to march from Kamwokya, Kampala suburb through Kampala capital city streets to the Constitutional Court to handover a statement to the Registrar of the Court over the delayed ruling on a Constitutional Court Case Petition No. 16 of 2011on preventable maternal deaths. The were there to ask why do women continue to die from preventable pregnancy and childbirth related causes?
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- May 8, 2012
- Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report for Preterm Health launches at the United Nations in New York
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Andrew Gitembagara , Member of the WRA Rwanda Board of Directors, and Tamara Windau, of the Global Secretariat, attended the launch of Born Too Soon, a UN report featuring the first-ever estimates of preterm birth rates by country.
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- September 18, 2011
- Advocating for safe pregnancy & childbirth for women & newborns worldwide
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Five representatives from WRA National Alliances attend the UN General Assembly. Learn why the UN General Assembly is important to the work of WRA.
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- May 3, 2012
- Global Campaign Skillshare - Inspiring Learning and Strengthening Partnerships
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Save the Children's Global Operations Director Ben Hewitt gives his reflections on the global campaign skillshare in Tanzania last week where delegates from Save the Children and White Ribbon Alliance came together to share brilliant ideas on campaigning and strengthen partnerships between the two organisations at the national, regional and global levels.
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- May 4, 2012
- News Alerts and Accountability in Nigeria
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WRA Nigeria's Board Member Hadiza Aminu reflects on the appointment of President Goodluck Jonathan to the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities.
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- April 16, 2012
- Historic Commitment from the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Securing Women’s and Children’s Health
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The Parliament of Uganda hosted the 126th Assembly of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) from 31st March to 5th April 2012 in Kampala under the theme “Parliaments and People: Bridging the Gap”
In the assembly parliamentarians from over 120 countries met to discuss women’s and children’s health from a human rights perspective - as part of the resolution “Access to Health as a Basic Right: The Role of Parliaments in Addressing Key Challenges to Securing the Health of Women and Children.” - They also discussed the crucial role that Parliaments and individual parliamentarians have to play in order to realize better health for women and children.
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