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Illinois Man Who Sewed Son's Buttocks Shut, Takes Alford Plea

The Huffington Post | David Lohr | Posted 05.16.2012

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A northeast Illinois man who stood accused of using a needle and thread to sew his son's buttocks shut has accepted a plea agreement and will not spen...

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Horror and Hope in the Congo

Kate Grant | Posted 05.09.2012

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Kate Grant

Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro provides an illuminating view of the war in Congo and profiles Heal Africa, a pioneering hospital in this besieged region, confronting the immeasurable toll on women from rape, brutal violence, and obstetric fistula.

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Women Hold Up Half The Sky

Kate Grant | Posted 04.15.2012

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Kate Grant

The exhibit challenges you to open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart, and most of all to act to improve the lot of the world's women. The enemy is not men. The enemy is indifference and its evil twin inaction.

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Mother Courage: A New Lease on Life Following Fistula Surgery

David Lindsay | Posted 03.17.2012

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David Lindsay

There is nothing more devastating for a mother than the loss of her child. In a cruel irony, the last 10 years in the life of the optimistically-named Happiness Josephat Miyawa have been truly miserable.

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Teen Brides Suffer Pain, Shame From Fistula

Posted 10.04.2011

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NAIROBI (TrustLaw) - "Nobody wants a woman who passes stools all the time and smells," whispered Farhiya Mohamed Farah, explaining why her husband...

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Back to Bangladesh - Day 3

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.23.2011

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Christy Turlington Burns

It is important to keep in mind that globally, for every single maternal death, there are at least 20 morbidities.

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Fistula: A Horrifying Condition Affecting Women Worldwide

The Huffington Post | Catherine Pearson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today, on International Women's Day, another woman will join the some 2 million others suffering from obstetric fistula. She will labor, perhaps a...

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Love Your Mother, Save Another

Cristina Page | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cristina Page

Unlike many of the world's problems, making huge strides in the fight against maternal mortality is actually easy. And relatively inexpensive too. There are things we can all do.

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Fistula: An American Rarity, an African Reality

Anika Rahman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anika Rahman

When maternal mortality is a preferred choice over maternal morbidity for women in developing nations -- as Americans, we must stand up and take action.

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Mothers of Ethiopia Part III: Battling Pregnancy Complications

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 12.07.2011

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Hanna Ingber Win

Editor's note: Hanna Ingber Win, the Huffington Post's World Editor, was recently invited by the UN Population Fund to visit its maternal health progr...

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Africa's Forgotten Tragedy -- A Cursed Woman

Heidi Kingstone | Posted 05.25.2011

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Heidi Kingstone

Women live in hell with a condition that has all but been eliminated in the developed world.

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