Standing with Our Sisters Here and Worldwide

99% of pregnancy related deaths occur in the developing world. Each year, 529,000 women and girls die worldwide due to complications related to pregnancy, including as many as 70,000 women and girls who die every year from botched abortions, millions more are left injured. These are just estimates. Actual numbers of women dying are much higher when you consider how many deaths go unreported. All these fatalities are preventable.

Access to family planning saves women’s lives. Most Americans are unaware of the far reaching impacts that polices made on Capitol Hill have on the reproductive health and lives of women in these countries, but the fight we face on the domestic front and the fight that we face on the global front for reproductive rights are not two separate battles: They are one and the same. It is crucial to align domestic and global family-planning movements to save women’s lives. Expose links between lack of access to family planning, sweatshops, poverty and violence against women around the world.

Download FMF's fact sheets:

• The United States Must Increase International Family Planning Funding
• The Afghan's Women's Women's Health Initiative
• Ratify Key International Treaties

Take Action on Your Campus Today!

• Hold a panel discussion on International Family Planning
• Educate your campus about the United Nation's Women's Treaty, CEDAW
• Sponsor a showing of the "Global Majority...Again" video followed by a discussion
• Get involved with our Women and Climate Change Campaign

If you need any educational materials (fact sheets, dvds, etc.) on FM's Global Reproductive Health and Rights Campaign or for general questions, contact Anushay Hossain, Global Programs Coordinator, at ahossain@feminist.org