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• First Lady Janet Museveni encourages youth to join safe motherhood efforts
  Click here to read the full article
• I have raised K25 million for safe motherhood in Malawi - Joyce Banda
  Read in the Nyasa Times about Malawi Vice President, Joyce Banda, who has managed to raise K25 million from the private sector to help in safe motherhood so that the country remains on track to achieving one of the UN Millennium Development Goals of reducing maternal mortality.
• International Women's Day call for labour deaths action
  Pregnant women in developing countries face the same risk of death as women in the UK did 100 years ago, according to a coalition of campaign groups. Read more in Jane Dreaper's article in BBC News.
• 500,000 mothers are still dying in childbirth
  Click on the link to read Jo Steele's article in The Metro (UK)
• MPs to Celebrate Women's Day in Gicumbi
  Click on the link to read Edwin Musoni's article in allAfrica highlighting how the Forum for Women Parliamentarians and the WRA-Rwanda will mark International Women's Day in the Gicumbi District
• India launches new drive against pregnancy deaths
  Click to read Geeta Pandey's article in BBC News covering WRA-India's campaign "Play Your Part"
• Celebrities attend safe motherhood event
  Celebrities including WRA Global Patron Sarah Brown and the singer Annie Lennox rubbed shoulders last night at an event promoting safe motherhood. Learn more on The Telegraph (UK).
• Tess Daly and Sarah Brown bond over motherhood
  BBC presenter Tess Daly, Prime Minister's wife and WRA Global Patron Sarah Brown and singer Annie Lennox were among the celebrity guests attending the WRA's International Women's Day Dinner Party in London. Find out more in The London Evening Standard!
• First Ladies and Fashion Icons Rally for Healthy Pregnancy and Safe Childbirth
  WRA News: Global Update March 2010
• White Ribbon Alliance Unites Uganda's Most Powerful Voices to Celebrate 100th Year of International Women's Day
• Yoga Magazine (UK) celebrates International Women's Day with the WRA
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• Madam Ida Odinga Champions Safe Motherhood at WRA Kenya International Womens Day Event
• Press Coverage IWD Media Breakfast - Kenya Times
• Mothers Day Every Day February 2010 Update - The Campaign for Healthy Moms and Newborns
• DIANE von FURSTENBERG SUPPORTS THE WHITE RIBBON ALLIANCE FOR MOTHER'S DAY 2010
• Vivienne Westwood and Naomi Campbell join forces for Fashion for Relief Haiti
  Read Hilary Alexander's article in The Telegraph UK about WRA Global Ambassador Naomi Campbell and the veteran designer Vivienne Westwood
• Thanks £1million! Kate Moss and Geri Halliwell help Naomi Campbell raise funds for Haiti
  Learn more about WRA Global Ambassador Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief show in London in Emily Sheridan's article on the Daily Mail UK
• Fashion for Relief: Kate Moss returns to the catwalk alongside Geri Halliwell, David Walliams and Nicola Roberts for Haiti charity show
  Click to read more of WRA Global Ambassador Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief in Victoria Ward's article in the Mirror UK
• Vogue UK: Fashion For Relief London
  Read about WRA Global Ambassador Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief show in Julia Neel's article in Vogue UK
• WRA Global Ambassador Naomi Campbell's speaks with CNN in "Fashion Week shows off for Haiti"
• Tributes to Lee Alexander McQueen at New York Fashion Week Charity Gala: Stars take to the catwalk in Alexander McQueen creations in memory of the late designer, and in aid of Haiti
  Click on the link to read Hilary Alexander's article in The Telegraph UK about WRA Global Ambassador Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief Haiti
• Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, speaks about 'Half the Sky' and Fashion For Relief Haiti on Fox News
  
• Stepping Up Partnerships and Raising Voices for Mothers and Babies
  WRA News: Global Update February 2010
• JOIN US ON THE BRIDGE ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 8TH MARCH 2010
• The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood Presents the Global Dinner Party Guide by Yasmin Mills Celebrating the 100th Year of International Women's Day
• Follow Jo Cox, Director of the Maternal Mortality Campaign, on Facebook as she blogs from Davos
• WRA Global Ambassador Naomi Campbell and Global Patron Sarah Brown Reach Out to Women and Children of Haiti
• WRA Responds to Haiti Tragedy
• "Redefining 'Impossible' When It Comes to Maternal Mortality" by Mothers Day Every Day Advisory Committee Member Liya Kebede in The Huffington Post
• Yemen needs to reduce maternal mortality rate
  The National Safe Motherhood Alliance (NSMA) in Yemen, of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, conducted a training course on issues regarding motherhood.
• A message from Global Patron Sarah Brown
• Celebrating Progress and Unifying Strategies to Save Lives
  WRA News
• Sarah Brown: midwives crucial to stopping women dying in childbirth
  Sarah Brown, the Global Patron of the WRA and Prime Minister's wife of the UK, has called for more to be done to stop women dying in childbirth around the world.
• Supermodel Naomi Campbell helps Somerset duo
  BBC News features WRA Global Ambassador Naomi Campbell's first African Fashion for Relief and her visit to Temeke Hospital with WRA National Coordinator Rose Mlay of Tanzania and WRA Global Director Brigid McConville of the UK.
• "Improve child, maternal care" in The Guardian, Tanzania
• Naomi Campbell in Dar for cause
  Famous British model and White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood Ambassador Naomi Campbell walks between models, during a fashion show in Dar es Salaam on Thursday night to raise funds to help Tanzanian mothers deliver safely.
• WRA Patron Sarah Brown delivers keynote speech to open WRA Annual Membership Meeting
• Birth and death: Time to unleash the power of women
  WRA President/Executive Director Theresa Shaver: "Now more than ever, we need to truly make the effort to ensure that women everywhere have these rights."
• Former Prime Minister Joe Clark visits Korle Bu Hospital following delivery of $1 Million Worth of Donated Medical Equipment and Supplies from Canada
  This project benefits a maternity ward of one of Ghana's hospitals and stems from Former First Lady Maureen McTeer's work with the White Ribbon Alliance.
• First Lady of Rwanda called upon stakeholders to mobilize, sensitise and motivate Rwandans towards reduction of maternal deaths and take innovative actions against the problem
• Commitment to improving maternal, newborn, child health and family planning in Pakistan

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