Right now, around the world, millions of lives are in the hands of midwives. Whether they are wading through flood waters to reach pregnant women or delivering babies amid the rubble of an earthquake, midwives are the unsung heroes of community health services. Thanks to midwives, births are safer. The sexual and reproductive health care they provide is more attuned to women’s needs, desires and local cultural practi...

Guinée, Conakry - Dans les tréfonds des terres aurifères de Mandiana au nord-est de la Guinée, de Kodiaran et Kodiaran Kôro, émergent des oasis d'apprentissage et d'espoir pour les filles et leurs familles. “Nous étions dans l'ignorance. Mais aujourd’hui nous avons eu beaucoup d'informations sur les grossesses précoces, les mariages d’enfant…” témoigne Kalamako Konaté, élève à l’école communautair...

A peaceful and prosperous future depends on the empowerment of women and girls. Thirty years ago, at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, 179 countries agreed that this was the right thing to do and the necessary path forward for sustainable global development.