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Reproductive Health
"Grace Under Fire": Highlighting the Need of Reproductive Health Care in Crises
Lack of reproductive health care is a leading cause of death and disease among refugee and displaced women of reproductive age. Grace Under Fire is a powerful and inspiring documentary focused on promoting and improving access to life-saving...
Commemorating World Humanitarian Day
Today we celebrate World Humanitarian Day, honoring the men and women who devote their lives to the challenging and dangerous work of providing humanitarian aid. Every day,...
Desperate Lives: Urban Refugee Women in Malaysia and Egypt
Forced Migration Review, February 2010 issue Dale Buscher, director of protection,...
How Will Your Support of our Luncheon Help Refugee Women and Children?
By supporting our 2011 Voice of Courage Luncheon you will help improve the lives of refugee women and children. Your support helps to ensure that women can access emergency reproductive health care, that children and families in immigrant...
Notes from the Field: Taking Family Planning Door to Door in Muddy South Sudan
Although it was warm and sunny the day I arrived in Malakal, South Sudan, I soon found out why the rainy season is notorious here. I was in the newly independent country in August to help assess our pilot project on community-based distribution of...
Notes from the Field: Expanding Family Planning Options in Southern Sudan
Peer educators in Malakal, Sudan, informing local communities on...
Notes from the Field: Improving Women’s Health in Haiti
As you drive away from the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital city, tarp-covered shelters spread out in all directions. Across the country, these flimsy settlements are still home to some 600,000 Haitians displaced by the January 2010...
Notes from the Field: Simple Solution Saves Mothers’ Lives in Rural Tanzania
Photo Blog: Taking Family Planning Door to Door in Muddy South Sudan
Mihoko Tanabe, Program Officer, Reproductive Health Program, recently visited South Sudan to...
Protecting Women and Girls from the Impacts of Disasters
Refugee Women: Twenty Years On
Dale Buscher, director of protection, has an article in Refugee Survey Quarterly (Vol. 29, No. 2). The edition is devoted to gender equality and refugee women. In the lead article, “Refugee Women: Twenty Years On,” Buscher describes progress made...
Reproductive Health in Crisis Settings Featured at Commission on the Status of Women
This guest blog post is written by Sameen Qadir, Student at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Intern at the Women's Refugee Commission Despite...
Security for Haitians
In a letter to the editor of the New York Times, Sandra Krause, director of our reproductive health program, talks about the ongoing needs of women and girls in Haiti. Read the letter as it appeared in the
Six Months Later: Reproductive Health Needs Are Still Critical in Haiti
Thailand: Midwives saving lives
This blog post was written by Peter Biro for our affilliate organization, The International Rescue Committee.
Undocumented Women Forced To Give Birth While Shackled And In Police Custody
Michelle Brané, Director, Detention and Asylum, is quoted in Cristina Costantini's Huffington Post article, "Undocumented Women ...
Using technology to help save mothers and babies
Sandra Krause, director, reproductive health program, and Diana Quick, director of communications, write about the Mama: Together for Safe Births in Crises, in this issue of Forced...
Wake Up Call: Women Trapped by Domestic Violence, Prevented from Receiving Pre-Natal Care in Cote d'Ivoire
"'What is the problem? The goats and the sheep give birth without any assistance, why not my wife?'" This is a quote from a man in one village on Ivory Coast who refused his pregnant wife...
