Action on Maternal Mortality

Action on Maternal Mortality

Organizations currently campaigning on maternal mortality.

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NI 420 - Mothers who die - March, 2009
Mariama's story Photo by: Ousseini Issa

Mariama's story

Mariama lost two babies in childbirth - because she had no help. This is her story.

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Stella Kawelama waiting for an appointment at Zomba General Hospital.Photos by Pilirani Semu-banda

Beyond witchcraft

Pilirani Semu-Banda meets a young woman from Malawi who thought her life had been ruined by giving birth – until she heard about a simple operation.

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Illustration by Rowena Dugdale

In memoriam

A visual memorial to the 61 mothers who die every hour, by artist Rowena Dugdale.

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Those we lost

Those we lost

Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world. And behind every death there is a poignant story – told here by a sister, a husband and by photographer Jean Chung.

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Maternal Mortality - The Facts

There is a bigger gulf in experience between the Global North and the Global South in maternal death rates than there is on any other human development measure. The average lifetime risk of maternal death in the rich world is 1 in 8,000, compared with 1 in 850 in developing countries and 1 in 450 in least developed countries.

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Photo: Pirozzi / UNICEF

The heartbreak

Why are so many women still dying in childbirth? Chris Brazier explains how they could be saved.

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Figure 1: Capacity to pay
These curves show income distributions within India, China, and the US. The green areas represent incomes above a $20 per person per day ‘development threshold.’ Income below that threshold is excluded when we calculate national capacity to pay for climate action.

The real deal

Unless it is fair, we will never get a successful international climate agreement. Tom Athanasiou has rolled up his sleeves and produced a proposal for how it could be done.

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High-flying window cleaner has no safety net beneath him in Beijing’s central business district. Photo by Reinhard Krause / Reuters

Meltdown South

David Ransom examines the impact so far on the Majority World.

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Photo by Krishna Murari Kishan / Reuters

A new, green, democratic deal

How the financial, social and environmental crises collide – the opportunities and the dangers. Susan George and Walden Bello get the debate going.

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NI 419 - Climate justice - January, 2009

Don't panic: take action!

You can play your part in the global movement for climate justice by getting involved in local and national campaigns wherever you are. Here are a few tips for taking effective climate action.

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NI 419 - Climate justice - January, 2009

Homegrown energy

In Brazil, communities are forging their own solutions, reports Lucia Ortiz.

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Photo by Supri Supri / Reuters

Just or bust

Danny Chivers surveys the options for the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009, and asks if they can deliver climate justice.

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System error

Apocalyptic comedy from cartoonist Stephanie McMillan.

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Leave it in the ground!

Activists Nnimmo Bassey and Mel Evans report from the frontline.

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Carbon capitalist: should we really entrust the future of the planet to city traders and bankers who’ve just brought the global economy to its knees?Adam Butler / AP / PA Photos

A timely death?

Patrick Bond foresees a rocky future for carbon trading.

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Climate Justice - The Facts

Climate change is causing human suffering all over the world and it's the poorest of the poor who are going to be worst hit.

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Is nothing sacred? An Adivasi indigenous woman listens to speeches against British company Vedanta’s plans for a massive open-cast mine in her ancestral homeland, in the Indian state of Orissa.  Photo by Stuart Freedman / Panos

A million mutinies

Sunita Narain looks to the environmentalism of the poor for answers.

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Degrees of delusion

Yang Ailun and David Spratt on why politicians are failing.

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Climate justice January, 2009
Climate justice January, 2009
Climate justice January, 2009
Climate justice January, 2009
Climate justice January, 2009
Climate justice January, 2009
Climate justice January, 2009
Climate justice January, 2009
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