India: Where Pregnant Women are More than Statistics
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India has experienced a 22 percent reduction in its maternal mortality rate since 2013. Here’s one major reason why.
Beyond Begging: Meet the Mother of a Thousand Orphans
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Now everybody who rejected me wants to felicitate me, including my marital and natal family.
Looking Up to Visually-Impaired Girls in India, through Judo
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This is a dream come true for 65 visually-impaired girls from marginalized communities in India, who have overcome economic and social challenges to learn judo, and are now teaching others.
Nuns, Reproductive Health Care, and Men
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One of the important outcomes of this innovative intervention with religious leaders has been the involvement of men.
“Yes Men Can,” says India’s Kant Brothers
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It is a difficult and risky job to raid a brothel and bring the culprits to court, but we were determined to continue.
Meet the First Transgender Judge in India
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“Those who once taunted me about my gender stand before me with folded hands waiting for a judgment on their case.”
Equality
For India’s Threatened Koraga, a Heroine Emerges
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As a schoolgirl she had to pick up the teacher’s shoes and stand outside the classroom. Now Sabitha Koraga is the inspirational figure in a film that in July will start being shown in government and government-aided schools.
India
India Faces Reminders of Failing Maternal Safety
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When the World Health Assembly convenes May 18 in Geneva, public health campaigners will try to highlight something very wrong in India: the high number of poor and marginalized women still dying of preventable causes linked to childbirth.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh ‘Golden Girls’ Guard Maternal Safety
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In Bangladesh only 27 percent of pregnant women have access to highly trained birth attendants. These teen volunteers are trained to meet pregnant women in their communities and connect them to the most basic medical resources and information.
Work
Women of the Tsunami Face Business Survival Test
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Female co-owners of the fish processing Sea Dot unit in Chennai, India, are struggling to keep their comeback enterprise going. After several good years, times have gotten tough. As the economy slackened, so did their sales.