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International Women's Day 2006   
March 8, 2006—International Women's Day is a time to celebrate the girls and women who are improving communities and leading change around the world. "Women are healthier, better educated, and more represented in leadership than they were 30 years ago," CEDPA President Yolonda Richardson notes in a OneWorld.net interview.
In the Arizona Daily Star, CEDPA Board Chair John Smith reflects on his "good fortune as a retired obstetrician/gynecologist because I never had a mother die in childbirth... If I had practiced in much of the rest of the world, however, I would not have been so lucky." Smith calls on the world community to "recommit to making crucial investments in women's health" that were promised in international agreements over the past decade. Read the OneWorld interview with President Yolonda Richardson. Read the Arizona Daily Star op-ed by Board Chair John Smith.
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But challenges remain. "Today, over 60 million girls of primary school-age are not in school," she says. Women are the majority of the world's poor. Every minute of every day, a woman dies somewhere in the world from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. 
