A Mother's Day Report Card: The Best, and Worst, Countries to Be a Mother

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: May 9, 2006 | Copyright information

WESTPORT, Conn., May 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Save the Children, a U.S.-based independent global humanitarian organization, released today its annual Mothers' Index that ranks the best-and worst- places to be a mother and a child. The Index, highlighted in the organization's State of the World's Mothers 2006 report, ranks the status of mothers and children in 125 countries based on 10 indicators pertaining to health and education.

Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers 2006 report takes a closer look at the inextricable link between the health and survival of mothers and babies, ...

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