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Every Mother Counts Staff
March 11, 2013
Every Story Counts – Let’s Build Our Story
We believe that by sharing our motherhood/parenthood stories, we narrow the gap between “us and them.” This week we’re taking it further, making the story our own and expanding the concept that Every Story Counts.
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Every Mother Counts Staff
March 11, 2013
Mother's Day in Ireland and the UK
In the spirit of making Mother’s Day more than a once-a-year event, we decided to take note of when and how mother’s day is celebrated in other parts of the world and to do something special on each holiday. Yesterday marked Mother’s Day (also called Mothering Day) in the UK and Ireland and we honored it by tweeting a virtual bouquet to our readers, supporters and followers. Some of us also had brunch with our mothers and mother-friends and raised a glass in honor of our mother-sisters across the pond and around the world.
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Alice Proujansky
March 10, 2013
Life’s Unequal Beginnings
FOR the past six years I have been photographing birth, looking at its universal as well as cultural aspects, and the struggle to provide women with safe, respectful care. An estimated quarter of a million women die each year from pregnancy-related causes like pre-eclampsia. Though the number of women who die in pregnancy or childbirth is half what it was 20 years ago, most of these deaths could have been prevented.
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Every Mother Counts Staff
March 9, 2013
Rude Awakening: The complex epidemic of violence young women and girls face in India and beyond
Last night we attended an event sponsored by our friends at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) featuring their new campaign, Turning Point: Changing the Course for Adolescent Girls Worldwide. A panel of experts, including our very own Christy Turlington Burns, ONE President Michael Elliott, and ICRW’s Stella Mukasa and Ravi Verma, discussed the global epidemic of violence against women, and particularly young women and girls.
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Sunil Desai
March 9, 2013
International Women’s Day – The Role for Men and Boys in Stopping VAWG
Though International Women’s Day is just one day set aside every year to celebrate all women and girls, celebrating needs to be part of our everyday lives and more specifically, needs to be part of the everyday lives of men and boys.
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Every Mother Counts Staff
March 8, 2013
Every Mother Counts Celebrates International Women's Day
Happy International Women's Day! No it's not exactly made it as a Hallmark holiday yet but that doesn't make it any less important in our book. This is the day each year when we celebrate women- we celebrate BEING women and supporting women and standing together. We get to reflect on how far we've come and how far we still have to go. It's already been a full week- we've explored women's health issues and violence against girls, we've focused on women in their careers and marched at the UN. So what can you do to celebrate? Well that's part of the beauty of the day- you can take your pick.
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Clancy McCarty
March 8, 2013
“Too Young To Wed” Panel Discussion at the UN’s 57th Commission on the Status of Women
Today, I attended the “Too Young to Wed” discussion spearheaded by The Elder’s “Girls Not Brides” partnership, part of the 57th Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations. Dr. Carole Presern, Director, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health introduced the panel, which was moderated by a very animated Ms. Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvonda. The panelists discussed the causes, solutions, and brainstormed actions and policies to end child marriage, or as Dr. Carole Presern exclaimed, “child rape.”
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Every Mother Counts Staff
March 8, 2013
Obama's Second Term and Women's Health
This afternoon, EMC was proud to participate in a panel at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) discussing what the priorities should be for the Obama Administration's Second Term in office when it comes to women's health. It offered a great opportunity to reflect on the efforts that have been put forward in the past several years in women's health broadly and what can be done over the next few years to build on them, coordinate them and therefore maximize the impact on women's health globally.
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Every Mother Counts Staff
March 8, 2013
Come Play, “Change The Story”
Come play with us! We’re taking part in an International Women’s Day celebration that’s a bit like a global game of telephone, only better and on Twitter. Half The Sky, the best-selling book, film, foundation and now Facebook game is sponsoring this Twitter event by tossing out the beginning line of a story. Then, YOU can add to the story directly a line at a time via Twitter by using the hashtag #changeherstory. Then, we sit back and watch as the story morphs, changes and evolves.
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Jeanne Faulkner
March 7, 2013
Fresh Perspectives at the CARE Conference
I’ve been attending the CARE conference for several years now and I find them invigorating every time, even if I glaze over just a wee bit during certain info sessions I’m already familiar with. But this year, I traveled with a few women for whom this was their first CARE conference. In fact, it was there first experience learning about global poverty eradication and how women’s and maternal health issues are integrated with all that. In essence, they were baptized into humanitarian work at this conference and are now ready to take on the world. In turn, I feel more energized and engaged with the mission we’re all committed to, both at CARE and at Every Mother Counts – to improve lives for girls and women, make it safe for them to have babies and make the world itself is a better place to live.
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