Spice Girl Geri Halliwell Joins Congressional Women Leaders & Fistula Survivors to Rally for Maternal Health

Spice Girl Geri Halliwell Joins Congressional Women Leaders & Fistula Survivors to Rally for Maternal Health

    WHO:   UN Goodwill Ambassador and Spice Girl Geri Halliwell   Rep. Lois Capps and the Congressional Democratic Women's Working   Group   Fistula Survivors and their physicians from Kenya and the Democratic   Republic of the Congo    WHAT:   WOMEN DELIVERING FOR WOMEN:   Press Conference/Rally to bolster support for H. Res. 1022  --   Bipartisan Resolution to express the commitment of Congress to   reduce maternal mortality in the U.S. and throughout the world   Followed by a House Briefing on Maternal Mortality/Fistula    WHEN &   WHERE:   Tuesday, May 20   Rally and Press Conference   1 p.m.   Terrace, Cannon Office Building    Maternal Mortality/Obstetric Fistula Briefing   3 to 4:30 p.m.   U.S. Capitol, HC-5    WHY:   Every minute of every day, a woman dies needlessly in pregnancy or   childbirth  --10 million are lost in each generation. The events will   honor the lives of women around the world and demonstrate U.S.   congressional commitment to reduce maternal mortality in the U.S.   and throughout the world.       

Geri Halliwell is available for a limited number of one-on-one interviews with the media.

Obstetric fistula is a devastating childbirth injury that leaves women incontinent, ashamed and often isolated from their communities. Preventable and treatable, it is a condition no woman should have to endure.

/PRNewswire-USNewswire - May 15/

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Source: United Nations Foundation

CONTACT: Yolanda Johnny Taylor, United Nations Foundation,
+1-202-778-1630 (o), ytaylor@unfoundation.org; Laura Rogers, UNFPA -
Washington Office, +1-202-326-8705 (o), +1-202-997-1521 (c), lrogers@ccmc.org;
Nancy Bennett, CCMC, +1-800-834-1110 (o), nancy@nancybennett.info

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