1. Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History
(Newsletter)

...eviate what is being described as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. CONTINUE... UN warns of maternal mortality rate Top_news By Agencies    Saturday, 20 Septembe...

2. Maternal mortality
(Newsletter)

Dear [NAME] Maternal mortality Society + Culture By MWC NEWS    Monday, 19 February 2007 Afghanistan among worst in world Sangima watched her sister-in-law Mastbegeen die trying to give

3. Call for a Renewed Commitment to Promote Women’s Rights in Iraq
(Editor/Letters)

...raid of the high levels of violence to attend school.  Women’s health indicators are also a particular concern: maternal mortality rates are 84 per 100,000 live births compared with 41 and 65 in...

4. Six million children 'need not die every year'
(Opinions/Society)

...orn and child survival; encouraging action by mobilising the world to support programmes aimed at reducing infant and maternal mortality; working with national health ministries and local organisation...

5. White Ribbon Alliance Apeal to IMF/World Bank
(Editor/Letters)

...increase investments in women's health.  Citing recent reports that the UN Millennium Development Goal to reduce maternal mortality by 75% by 2015 is unlikely to be met in Asia until 2076 and man...

6. TRANSCRIPT: Ahmadinejad at UN General Assembly
(Editor/Daily)

...ome countries, majority of people are deprived of access to education and schooling; in many developing countries the maternal mortality rate during pregnancy is 450 per 100,000. This ratio is 7 in th...

7. US War Crimes
(Editor/Editorial)

...penalty under US Federal Law. MWC News Editor Shahram Vahdany alerted me to the latest estimates of  horrendous Maternal Mortality in US-occupied Afghanistan (see MWC News ) and I have responded...

8. Maternal mortality
(Opinions/Society)

...e around," he said. With 6,500 maternal deaths per every 100,000 live births, Badakshan province has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, according to the United Nations Population F...

9. Iraqi Women Under Occupation
(Opinions/Society)

...nternational reveals that 57 per cent of Iraqi women and their families do not have adequate healthcare, and that the maternal mortality rate have tripled when compare to the period between 1989 to 20...

10. Zimbabwe cholera crisis 'worsening'
(Archived/News/S+T)

Zimbabwe's cholera crisis has reached unprecedented levels with nearly 63,000 people being infected by the epidemic, according to a report.