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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

In Toronto, Ban says ensuring health of women, children 'best investment we can make'

30 May 2014
Despite major global progress in improving the health of children and their mothers, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged participants at a summit in Toronto to show the leadership, build the key partnerships, generate the financing and devise the creative solutions needed to deliver a world of health, safety and possibility for every woman and every child.
Two women in Mauritania who had operations for obstetric fistula.
IRIN/Manon Riviere

On International Day, UN urges end to ‘global social injustice’ of obstetric fistula

23 May 2014
United Nations officials today called for eradicating the global social injustice of obstetric fistula, a consequence of childbirth that affects an estimated two million women and girls in developing countries but is entirely preventable with access to quality medical care.
A mother and her newborn baby at the Maternal and Child Health Training Institute for medically needy in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
UN Photo/Kibae Park

Quality care at birth could save nearly 3 million children – UN-backed study

19 May 2014
The majority of the almost 3 million children who die before they turn one month old could be saved if they received quality care around the time of birth, according to the findings released today in a study supported by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which is urging additional attention and resources for this group of children.