India

Strengthening Women’s Voices for Better Maternity Care

A Conversation with Jayshree Satpute, Co-Founder of Nazdeek

“Women who are directly impacted should lead this work.”

How Sterilization Led to Death in India

Every time we check the news the number of women dying in India from botched sterilizations gets higher. 
As of this writing, twelve women have died and dozens more are sick (some on life support) as a result of surgeries performed in a government-run camp in…

Nazdeek — Taking Maternal Mortality To Court

There are many ways to go about improving maternal healthcare and one organization we’ve recently become aware of is taking a really unique approach. 

Nazdeek (which means ‘to be close’ in Urdu) is a team of transnational lawyers, researchers and…

From Canada to India: The 19 Best and Worst Places to be a Woman

The Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Trust Law, which serves as a legal news service for the foundation, has just launched a global poll evaluating the top 20 best and worst countries to be a woman out of G20 countries. The…

Mother India

This past March I traveled to India to join Dr. Julio Frenk, the Dean of Faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health, along with some faculty from the school and fellow members of the Board of Dean’s Advisors. I met up with everyone in New Delhi, having arrived in the middle of the night after about…