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On the eve of #WorldPopulationDay, thrilled to sign an agreement between @TelenorGroup and @UNFPA to bring midwifery services to 10,000 pregnant women in Dhaka slums via mobile phones. Soon, a "Mobile Midwife" will be only a phone call away! #UHC#IPCD25#ReducingInequalities
Today @UNFPABangladesh & @Telenor Bangladesh signed an agreement to create “Mobile Midwives", providing digital healthcare and midwifery services to 10,000 pregnant women in Dhaka urban slums, accelerating #ICPD25 progress @Atayeshe@bjornunfpa @UNFPAasia @TelenorHealth
Call to Action: Let's #endgunviolencetogether - go to @TOMS.com to send your representative a postcard demanding they take action. https://t.co/MDUUZCkx8I
Going to frame this and place it somewhere I see every day. Regardless of #Kavanaugh outcome, Dr. Ford's testimony changed history. Her genuine and courageous spirit inspire me #believesurvivors
We will not accept a world where decisions about our future are made in rooms we cannot enter. Congratulations to all the young leaders participating in #Youth2030 today.
“He who separates a mother from her child will be separated from his loved ones on the day of resurrection.”
- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
#FamiliesBelongTogether
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With more than 7,000 #GlobalShapers, our community spans 376 hubs in more than 156 countries and territories around the 🌎 Find out more before #wef18: https://t.co/OyjNZeQ59O
The day a girl is married, her entire future is compromised. Will you take a stand against child marriage on the last day of the #16days of Activism? https://t.co/NcWQHmbInC #orangetheworld
Amongst other issues, I feel compelled to say that the sexism that is so heavily embedded into South Asian culture needs to be changed. Question it. Call it out. Do better. Tradition is not an excuse or justification.