Every Woman Every Child
is an unprecedented global movement, spearheaded by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to mobilize and intensify global action to improve the health of women and children around the world. Working with leaders from governments, multilateral organizations, the private sector and civil society, Every Woman Every Child aims to save the lives of 16 million women and children and improve the lives of millions more.
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Bill Clinton joined other world leaders to announce a new partnership that will help avoid almost 30 million unwanted pregnancies and save $250 million in health costs, in coordination with the UN Commodities Commission.
Since its launch in September 2010, the Every Woman Every Child movement has helped catalyze new attention and investment to some of the most neglected causes of women’s and children’s mortality. Learn more.
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Featured Partner: Global Health Workforce Alliance
.jpg) The Global Health Workforce Alliance is advocating for action to address the health workforce crisis at the highest political levels and across its vast network of members and partners.
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What's New?
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Global leaders and advocates at the UN CSW: More than 140 million girls will marry between 2011 and 2020
At a panel discussion held during the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, global leaders including heads of UN agencies, members of Parliament, NGO heads, leaders from the faith-based community, and advocates gathered to discuss the issue of child marriage. Between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides, according to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). If current levels of child marriages hold, 14.2 million girls annually or 39 000 daily will marry too young. Furthermore, of the 140 million girls who will marry before they are 18, 50 million will be under the age of 15. Read the full press release. View photos from the event.
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Every Woman Every Child partners take action on International Women's Day 2013
This March 8, we are wishing all partners in the Every Woman Every Child movement a very happy International Women's Day! Watch UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speak at an International Women's Day commemoration. Listen to the newly launched UN Women theme song “One Woman”, plus view an accompanying music video; interviews with the artists; (s)hero stories; facts & figure; and more. Read a statement on International Women's Day from the iERG. View more partner activity and join the conversation on Twitter using #IWD2013.
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High-level commitment to save the lives of mothers and children in the EMRO Region
Delegates at a United Nations-convened high-level meeting January 29-30 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region have agreed to urgently accelerate progress on improving maternal and child health between now and the end of 2015 and to reduce the gap between current funding levels and those required to meet MDGs 4 and 5. The commitments are laid out in the Dubai Declaration, “Saving lives, Rising to the Challenge”. Read the press release. Read the full speech by HRH Princess Haya Bin Al Hussein.
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