The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is an international coalition of individuals and organizations formed to promote increased public awareness of the need to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for all women – in developing as well as developed countries. Members of the Alliance take action in their own countries to make this issue a priority for their government and other international organizations
Mission
The WRA is a grassroots movement for safe motherhood that builds alliances, strengthens capacity, influences policies, harnesses resources and inspires action to save women’s and newborns lives worldwide.
Vision
The WRA works to create a world where:
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It is a woman’s basic human right to achieve optimal health throughout pregnancy and childbirth for themselves and their newborns.
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Women are empowered to demand respectful, quality safe motherhood services and help other women to do the same.
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Women and newborns have access to essential and life saving safe motherhood services and information.
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Women and men are active members in the safe motherhood movement, are knowledgeable, and make decisions together that promote safe motherhood within their own families and their communities.
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Communities work together to address the effects of poverty, HIV/AIDS, armed conflict, violence against women and children, and gender inequities on safe motherhood.
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Governments set policies in collaboration with women, their communities, and other stakeholders and implement programs in support of safe motherhood.
