RAISE Featured in Latest Issue of Forced Migration Review
Check out RAISE’s latest article, ‘IDP health in Colombia: needs and challenges,’ published in September’s issue of Forced Migration Review, the world’s most widely read and consulted publication on refugee and internal displacement issues.
Increasingly, growing numbers of displaced people remain in flux for years, even decades. This article examines the immediate and longer-term reproductive health needs of the second largest displaced population in the world.
September 9, 2009 | RAISE News
RAISE’s Grace Kodindo, OBGYN, featured in new BBC Documentary on Reproductive Health in Emergencies
A new BBC documentary features the work of Dr. Grace Kodindo, Medical and Advocacy Adviser for RAISE. “Grace Under Fire” follows Dr. Kodindo, a Chadian OBGYN, through North Kivu in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as she talks to women and men who have been affected by fighting and investigates the shattered state of reproductive health services in the area.
Dr. Kodindo’s longtime work to prevent maternal mortality in Chad was the subject of another BBC documentary ‘Dead Mums Don’t Cry’ (2005), produced by Television for the Environment (TVE); in May of this year, Dr. Kodindo was honoured by the Danish government for her efforts to prevent needless maternal death and disability, and her contributions towards the realisation of gender equality and Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3. More »
September 8, 2009 | RAISE News
Global Conference to Reinvigorate Conversation on Status of Women’s Health and Rights
Press release from UNFPA:
NGO Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Development in Berlin September 2-4
Berlin, August 28 – Next week, more than 400 delegates from the around the world will gather here for a new conversation assessing 15 years of work toward better sexual and reproductive health and rights for women in developing countries.
Global Partners in Action: a Non-Governmental Organization Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Development is set for 2-4 September. Preceded by a Youth Forum of young leaders on 1 September, the conference marks 15 years since the historic International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo brought about a seismic change in thinking on these issues. It moved the global debate from ideas of “control” and “demographics” to a focus on sexual and reproductive health and well-being, with a new emphasis on individual rights and gender equality. More »
September 1, 2009 | RH News