In the article "Health MDG Supporters Unite to Call on World Leaders to Honor Funding Pledges" (July 21, 2009), PHR calls for the convening of the The United Nations General Assembly governments have pledged to immediately prevent women around the world from dying during pregnancy and childbirth at an alarming rate. At the United Nations high-level meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on 25 September, partners of the international PHR and maternal mortality and human rights initiative called on governments to focus on the fifth goal, and that which has seen the least progress: motherhood