Dawn Sinclair Shapiro is the recipient of the 2011 Nafis Sadik Award for Courage.
Dying for Life
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 Lifting the veil on the creative process, filmmaker Dawn Sinclair Shapiro recounts challenges and successes behind crafting "The Edge of Joy," an issue-driven documentary on maternal health in... |
 "The Edge of Joy," an issue-driven documentary regarding maternal health in Nigeria aired in excerpt April 28th on PBS NewsHour. |
 The Economist Film Project, a film documentary contest in partnership with PBS Newshour has selected "The Edge of Joy" as one of its first round winners. |
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Below is a guest blog post on maternal mortality by the Pulitzer Center's Kate Steger published this morning on One.org. |
This week’s Women Deliver Conference in Washington, D.C. was the first in a series of international conferences and summits that will focus the world’s attention, for the next four months, on... |
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One hundred youth from nearly as many countries gathered in Washington, D.C. as part of this week's Women Deliver conference on maternal health. |
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 Last month the British medical journal The Lancet reported that in the span of three decades, the number of women dying in childbirth or during pregnancy worldwide decreased substantially. |