#WDLive Daily Download | April 23, 2013

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Now is the Time to Deliver for Women and Girls:
2015 and Beyond.

Ban ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, tells the Women Deliver Community: "As we enter the homestretch to 2015, let us ensure that the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls are front and center."

Emerging Conversations

Article

Dispatches from Women Deliver: Breaking Taboos For Women’s Health

\\ by UN Dispatches

The hidden subtext of the Women Deliver 2013 Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the largest global health event of the decade, is all about breaking taboos.

WomenDeliver+SocialGood

Building a Pipeline for Next-Gen Global Health Leaders

\\ by +SocialGood

Barbara Bush, CEO and Co-Founder of Global Health Corps, talks with +SocialGood about her work to galvanize the next generation of global health leaders at Women Deliver.

Article

Behind a Healthy Woman, there's Girls and Men

\\ By Morra Aarons-Mele for Huffington Post

Two key groups have been left out of the development goals equation: Men, and girls between infanthood and adolescence. But men--and girls-- are now being very much encouraged to be part of a global system to helping women have healthy babies, and healthier lives.

Videos to Inspire

It's Time for Action Tarja Halonen, Former President of Finland, says the work starts when the Women Deliver delegates return home after an inspiring week.	Call to Action Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, tells the delegates that we have to ensure that women and girls are at the center of the post-2015 development agenda.

	Daily Crowdblogs Curated Social Media Coverage from Day Three By: FHI 360 & The Women Deliver Community Crowdblog: The Development Agenda Through a Woman’s Lens Helen Clark,Tarja Halonen, and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and Theo Sowa discuss the post-2015 development agenda. Voices from Women Deliver 2013 A complete library of the Videos to Inspire taken during Women Deliver 2013.
	LIVE COVERAGE HUB Live Coverage Archive of Women Deliver 2013 FHI 360 partnered with the Women Deliver Community to capture key conversations that took place during the three-day global conference. Visit the #WDLive Coverage Hub to tap into perspectives and conversations.
	Cartoons Women's Rights in Cartoons Cartoons can get at the heart of difficult and important subjects in ways that words often cannot. It takes a village, and the village usually has a cartoonist or two.
	Media recap Women Deliver Media Attention Over 400 media outlets covered the conversations that took place during Women Deliver 2013. Read the press releases from Women Deliver and watch the press conference live stream. Pre-Conference - Decade’s Largest Global Conference on Women and Girls Begins Tomorrow in Kuala Lumpur - Read Day One - Girls’ & Women’s Health and Rights in Focus at Women Deliver 2013 in Kuala Lumpur - Read - Day One Press Conference - Watch Day Two - Women Deliver and C-Exchange Launch Youth Initiative - Read - Global Leaders Call for Accelerated Progress on Family Planning at Women Deliver 2013 - Read - Day Two Press Conference - Watch Day Three - Women Deliver 2013 Concludes With a United Call to Invest in Girls and Women -Read - Day Three Press Conference - Watch
	Girls' Globe Coverage Girls' Globe Bloggers Girls' Globe Blogger Use Their Voices to Spread Awareness About Girls and Women's Issues The Girls' Globe Bloggers were an active part of the conversations during Women Deliver 2013. This growing network of bloggers are dedicated to raising awareness about global issues concerning the rights, health, and empowerment of women and girls. Stay tuned for more of their important insight as the conversation about the post-2015 development agenda continues.
	official conference photos Through the Lens of Women Deliver 2013 There were hundreds of speakers, receptions, booths, press conferences and events that made up Women Deliver 2013. Check out the official Women Deliver photos from the week.
	Honors Women Deliver Announces Winners of the Global Solutions Women Deliver announced the three winners of the first-ever Social Enterprise Challenge. Each of the winners of the Global Solutions Awards will receive a $5,000 prize to continue the important work they are doing for girls and women.

Tweet of the day

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"What matters is doing everything we can to help #womenandgirls flourish worldwide." ~ @melindagates #wdlive

Photo of the day

Senator Pia S. Cayetano is the youngest woman elected in the history of the Philippine Senate, a champion of the rights of women and children and a staunch advocate for health. Armed with the training of a lawyer, discipline of an athlete, and heart of a mother, Senator Pia excelled in her first term as legislator and was reelected to a second term in 2010.

One of three winners of the Women Deliver Rising Star Award, Senator Cayetano gives a passionate presentation to the participants of Women Deliver 2013.

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