Make sure some of the 9000 mothers and infanst that die every day will get to celebrate Mother’s Day next year

Nothing hurts a mother more than seeing her child suffer and not being able to provide relief. This Mother’s Day, close to 1,000 pregnant and new moms and more than 8,000 infants younger than a month old lost their lives, just like they do every single day. The sad fact is more than 7 million children die each year from almost entirely preventable causes. Sometimes it’s from lack of access to proper health care in the first hours, days or weeks of life. Sometimes it’s lack of access to vaccines, or proper sanitation. Sometimes it’s a simple lack of nutrition. But when a mother loses the battle for her child’s life, the reasons give way to grief.

It doesn’t need to be this way. Simple, cost-effective solutions exist to eradicate preventable child death in our lifetime. Solutions like insecticide-treated mosquito nets that prevent malaria and save half a million children’s lives per year. Or low cost vaccines that would prevent 4 million deaths in the next five years. CARE works hard to bring these and other solutions to the mothers that need them.

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Women are about to lose their rights in America

I often hear people, especially men, issue opinions on how those horrible, horrible muslims treat their women, all while patting themselves on the back for how good things are in the western society. It becomes kind of outragious however, when America's women are about to lose their rights instead of gaining ground when it comes to equality

I know, I know, President Barack Obama has described the failure to ratify the Convention on the rights of the child when it comes to allowing minors to have abortions without the knowledge or consent of parents as 'embarrassing' and has promised to review this. But the way things are going in the United States, there may eventually have to be a convention on the rights of the woman to review and ratify instead.

It can't be defined as anything other than an attack on women's rights now that the House has passed two bills to defund family planning services — shamefully wiping out federal funding for Planned Parenthood's non-abortion health care for women. And not only that but the redefinition of rape is still on the table and anti-choice Republicans are pushing a bill that would allow hospitals to let pregnant women die rather than perform life-saving abortions.

It's up to the Senate to stop this shameful behaviour from a so called civilized country, but If you think there is a solid pro-choice majority in the Senate, think again.
The ability to stop these bills in the Senate cannot be taken for granted . Anti-choice forces in the Senate now out-number pro-choice Senators 46-40. 41 votes are needed to sustain a filibuster of the anti-woman, anti-choice bills coming out of the House. And what's more, 41 pro-choice Senators who are willing to go toe-to-toe with the extreme hard right majority are needed as well. At the end of this fight one side will have to blink.

What's more, there will be enormous pressure on pro-choice members of the Senate to pass the Continuing Resolution on the Budget without stripping provisions to defund Planned Parenthood. In the health care reform fight, this is exactly how the Stupak Amendment was able to pass the House — women were thrown under the bus in order to get a majority vote for what was considered a "must pass" bill. Back then, conservatives in the Senate prevailed practically without a fight. And now, post-election, ámerica's women are left with a shrinking pro-choice caucus in the Senate and facing a much bigger threat to women's health and the right to choose. It's scary.

If recent history is our guide, it will most likely the rightwing, anti-choice forces in the Senate who at the defining moment will refuse to back down. But it doesn't have to be that way. If there is a massive show of support, pro-choice Senators can get the help they need to and stop the attacks on women.

Now is the time for pro-choice Senators to use hardball tactics to stop Republicans and anti-choice Democrats from making the House's extremist attack on women into the law of the land. The representatives have failed to stop Republicans along with conservative Democrats in the House from advancing radical bills to dramatically restrict women's access to abortion and other forms of reproductive healthcare. But the Senate can be the so desperately needed firewall. But american women need at least 41 pro-choice Senators to refuse to cave and filibuster.

it's time for pro-choice Senators to draw a line in the sand and do whatever it takes to block any bill that introduces new restrictions on abortion or defunds Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of reproductive health care to women.

To do something about this disgrace, you can go to women's rights at change.org and sign every single petition you can find concerning this matter!

The promise of true and lasting human rights in Egypt does not include women

The recent terible events in Japan, the earthquake, the tsunami and then the struggle with the newclear reactors and the threat that's posing to the japanese people, has almost made this part of the world forget how important the future democracy of Egypt is to the egyptian people and, indeed to the whole world.

Yet it's important to remember that The Middle East & North Africa have seen millions taking to the streets to demand real change.

Women have been standing beside men, demanding an end to repression and calling for root and branch reform. Both women and men have suffered under these repressive governments. But women have also had to cope with discriminatory laws and deeply entrenched gender inequality.

Under Mubarak's abusive power, women in Egypt were often subject to violence not only
from family members and community members, but also by agents of the state, including the police supposedly concerned with the protection of all citizens. In addition, women were constantly subjected to violence in the form of
sexual harassment and abuse on the street, and approximately ninety-seven percent of Egyptian women are the victims of female genital mutilation.

Women’s right to lead a life free of violence was not widely internalized within Egyptian society, resulting in lack of reporting by victims of violence, lack of perpetrators’ awareness of
the criminality of violence, lack of response from police and the legal system supposedly tasked with enforcing
laws prohibiting violence, and perpetration of violence by authorities themselves against women in order to
pressure their male relatives.

So it’s no wonder that the egyption women took to the streets. That they cheered loudly when Mubarak departed. Or that they wanted to believe the promise of a new dawn in their country.

During the weeks in Tahrir Square and elsewhere The egyption people were able to set an example for the whole region and, indeed for the whole world to follow. protesters in Libia, bharain and Iran for example have not been as successful, but at least they have been inspired to start fighting for a transition into a more democratic system.

However, now that Egypt begins to look toward its future, women are already being excluded from the process of creating the new country.

Most recently, a new national committee formed to propose changes to the Egyptian constitution was composed only of men. Unfortunately it was to be expected, but it's unacceptable just the same.

women of diverse backgrounds and views must be at the table as full partners during the upbuilding of new systems and institutions. However the current behaviour by the interim authorities and the international community betrays a sense of paternalism all too familiar to Egyptian women who have spent decades living under an oppressive government supported by supposedly rights-respecting states like the UK and the USA.

Now that Egypt has a real opportunity to begin afresh on the basis of equality and non-discrimination for all its citizens, It is deeply disappointing that women are being excluded by the caretaker government and, that the international community so far remains indifferent.

The opportunity for the country to achieve future stability and prosperity will not last long if half the population don't have the right to play an active role in shaping the future.

Women cannot be excluded if the promise of true and lasting human rights change in Egypt and elsewhere in the region and the world is to be fulfilled.
Amnesty International has realised that It's time to tell the Leader of the Supreme Military Council - Field Marshal Muhammad Tantawi that this is not acceptible! Please help us help the women of Egypt to make their voices heard;your signature makes a difference!