Margaret Thatcher is The Iron LadyAP Photo/Scott Applewhite

Horror flick: Mrs T at the multiplex

Forget Scream, The Exorcist and Jaws: The nightmare on Downing Street is coming to a cinema near you.

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NI 449 - Haiti two years on - January, 2012
The boys in Brazil's favelas who shun violence International Centre for Research on Women

The boys in Brazil's favelas who shun violence

Gender activist Gary Barker sees young men who respect woman and are connected fathers.

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NI 444 - The changing face of masculinity - July, 2011
Afgan women are conditoned to mistrust each other.Radu Sigheti / Reuters

I put a spell on you...

NI gives the inside story on how male sorcerers are keeping women down in Afghanistan.

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NI 436 - A wake-up call for democracy - October, 2010
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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NI 420 - Mothers who die - March, 2009
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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NI 420 - Mothers who die - March, 2009
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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NI 420 - Mothers who die - March, 2009
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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NI 420 - Mothers who die - March, 2009

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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NI 420 - Mothers who die - March, 2009
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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NI 420 - Mothers who die - March, 2009

The Opium Bank

A canny village woman talks to NI.

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NI 417 - Through Afghan eyes - November, 2008
Elaborate trade-offs: women may agree to lose one basic freedom in order to gain another.Parwiz / Aina Photo Agency / Afghanistan

Beyond the burqa

Sex, dating and the struggle for modernity.

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NI 417 - Through Afghan eyes - November, 2008

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Haiti two years on January, 2012
The changing face of masculinity July, 2011
A wake-up call for democracy October, 2010
Mothers who die March, 2009
Mothers who die March, 2009
Mothers who die March, 2009
Mothers who die March, 2009
Mothers who die March, 2009
Mothers who die March, 2009
Mothers who die March, 2009
Mothers who die March, 2009
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
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