So many of you ask us, “How can I do more? I share things online, I sign petitions, and I donate when I can. But what can I do?"

Jitendra Kumar is a father I would wish for every child in India.

From Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” to Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin’s “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves,” music influences our feelings. It has the power to move us, challenge us and sometimes change us.

Four-year-old Nyamiri’s father, Yien, carried her all the way to Akobo Hospital from their tiny village of Wecanyanu. South Sudan’s Akobo County is one of the most remote places on earth ...

From now through World Refugee Day on June 20^th, we’re working with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to draw attention to the millions of families who have had to make that decision.

The term “smartphone” first appeared in 1997 – the same year that 16-year-old Jack Andraka was born. Since then, smartphones have spread to cover the globe, with more than 1 billion in use worldwide.

Good nutrition is a universal need for everyone, everywhere. Yet, we have one moment in a child’s life - in the 1,000 days from a woman’s pregnancy to a child’s second birthday - to make a lifelong difference.

May is an eight-year-old refugee from Syria. She and her family made their way by foot and bus from Damascus to the border with Iraq. Their journey was hundreds of kilometres and difficult – they followed a rough trail in the cold while her mother carried her baby brother.

Nine extraordinary girls from nine countries, each paired with an acclaimed writer from their country, are the stars of groundbreaking film Girl Rising.

A group of women leaders, entrepreneurs and social good mavens will be gathering at S.H.E. Summit in New York from June 14-15. This event will help empower and celebrate women, and cover  topics like investment in women and women-owned businesses.

I’m writing to you from the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Malaysia, attending the Women Deliver 2013 Conference where 4,000 attendees share the vision that the health and freedom of women and girls is key to the future of our planet, our world economy and our families.

Did you know that there are more than 120,000 men and women from 116 countries serving as UN peacekeepers?

This week at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Malaysia, the largest global event of the decade to focus on the health and empowerment of girls and women is taking place. We will be closely following the Women Deliver 2013 Conference from here in the States.

Seven days after my due date, I was more than ready to meet my first child.  So when contractions started early one Sunday morning in December, I mostly felt excitement tinged with a little nervousness.

Milly Businge is 57 years old and is the mother of eight children, seven surviving. She lives in rural Uganda, about 150 miles from Kampala. She was in the USA briefly last week to attend her eldest son’s wedding and generously made time to sit down with a group of global health professionals at the United Nations Foundation in Washington DC.

The Global Mom Relay was a 60-day concentrated lesson in global awareness. Through social media actions, money was donated from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Johnson & Johnson to four innovative campaigns making an impact under the Every Woman Every Child initiative: Girl Up, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action, and Shot@Life.

“Where I come from people do not celebrate the birth of their babies -- they wait to name their babies for seven days.”  ~ Dr Kim Eva Dickson, Senior Adviser, Maternal and Newborn Health, UNICEF