Posted on May 27th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
A pervasive lack of access to basic obstetric care across the developing world contributes to deaths of half a million women every year from mostly preventable causes. In places such as Tanzania, poor infrastructure combined with shortages of medical staff, equipment and drugs help perpetuate the problem.
Women in Africa have some of the world’s [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
A group of Pakistani students is using online social networks along with old-fashioned elbow grease in an attempt to drive positive change through volunteer garbage-collection efforts in the eastern city of Lahore. The group, frustrated by the government’s persistent inability to provide basic services, believes the only way to force change is to galvanize public [...]
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Posted on May 18th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
Millions of children younger than 5 years old die every year from preventable conditions such as diarrhea because the international community is failing to prioritize these problems and their causes, two reports this week from humanitarian groups Water Aid and PATH contend.
Two major aid agency reports published this week say millions of children’s lives are [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
Hana Makhmalbaf - Date of Birth 3 September 1988, Tehran, Iran
Her first short film was shown at the Locarno Film Festival (Ticino, Switzerland) when she was eight years old.
Almost barred from attending the premiere of her film, “Joy of Madness” - a documentary on the making of her sister’s film, “At Five in the [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
The third attack in three weeks on a girls school in Afghanistan has seen 90 girls rushed to the hospital, the apparent victims of gas poisoning. Though the Taliban denied any involvement, Afghan officials believe it is a sign of the increasing violence to which militants are resorting to suppress education for women.
One of the [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
Posted on May 5th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
