Maternal Mortality in India

Hanna Ingber Win explains her reporting project on maternal mortality in India.

In Muslim island villages, families marry off their daughters as young as 12 years old, taking them out of school, isolating them from their support services and increasing the likelihood of domestic violence and high fertility rates. Girls under the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than those in their 20s. In tribal villages on the other end of the river, impoverished families have been displaced from their homes by land erosion time and again.

This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "India Casts a Light on Mothers Long in the Dark" (http://bit.ly/rMJ9rI) by Hanna Ingber Win.

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