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/

First Call Analyst:
FCMN Contact:

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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