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At Conversations for a Better World, a multivoiced blog sponsored by UNFPA, an All Our Lives cofounder defends guaranteed maternity care as a universal human right:

It Affects Us All: Maternal Healthcare

Today is International Women's Day. According to the UN, 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced gender-based violence. Such violence sabotages women's ability to make their own decisions about sex & family planning & protect themselves and their children from unintended pregnancies, abortions, & HIV infections.

Here are some steps you can take to support the International Violence Against Women Act.

In the US, urge your Congresspeople to back the I-VAWA bill:
http://capwiz.com/wc/home/

Petition you can sign from anywhere:
http://www.saynotoviolence.org/join-say-no/tell-us-congress-pass-interna...