In Silence

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In Silence

Susan Meiselas

Each year half a million women around the world die in childbirth. Twenty percent of those deaths are in India. Most of the deaths are preventable with access to proper healthcare.

Winner of Webby's People's Voice Award for "Individual Documentary Episode".

Read the full report from Human Rights Watch, “No Tally of the Anguish: Accountability in Maternal Health Care in India"

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Send out my prayer for them. Hope this situation could change.

Comment posted by Ratna Muliasari (not verified) on March 6th, 2011

The fact that very painful. What can we do? Let us begin with praying, so that they could be free from this misery soon

Comment posted by Parjan Cipta (not verified) on March 3rd, 2011

Just saw it and got sad... How could it be so hopeless? Someone has to take care of them !!! What about Indian goverment?

Comment posted by Lana (not verified) on October 31st, 2010

I think this essay is extremely moving. The way it is told makes you just as angry as the family of Kiran. Excellent essay.

Comment posted by Amanda Ekker (not verified) on August 7th, 2010

poor indians:)

Comment posted by sarah roberts (not verified) on May 30th, 2010

magnum :)

Comment posted by sarah roberts (not verified) on May 30th, 2010

very emotional picture life is infinite

Comment posted by amit (not verified) on May 28th, 2010

Very impressive film...Makes me feel very angry and sad. It's no acceptable for a wolrd with so much technology. What do we want so much advance for? if we are no capable of saving human lives!!!

Comment posted by Eugenia Couoh (not verified) on May 28th, 2010

Very Impressive.....

Comment posted by Wytze (not verified) on May 7th, 2010

que irOnia... nOs quejamOs pOr un ISSTE, IMSS etc.. O pOr que en el hOspital angeles no van y hacen tu habitaciòn tempranO jajaja o que tal que las puertas o ventanas de tu habitaciòn no te gusta o las enfermeeras nO dan un buen servicio... que buenos somos para quejarnOs!! y que triste es que nO nOs debemOs cuenta de la realidad de OtrOs paises y más que no "pOdamOs" hacer nada pOr ellOs... por otro lado que agusto es trabajar en una oficina, con un escritOriO y demas...pero que tal si solo por un dia trabajaramos en el campo y nos fijaramos en lo que es la vida dificil... dejemos de quejarnOs y hagamos algo por nosotros mismos... que feo es ver una realidad que no esta presente en nuestras vidas y por eso no hacemos nada ;)

Comment posted by lOreta Amaya (not verified) on May 5th, 2010

This is unacceptable!A very moving and important film.

Comment posted by anne (not verified) on April 22nd, 2010

This was incredible

Comment posted by marvyn Leblanc (not verified) on April 21st, 2010

This was such an emotional short film to watch. I was not aware of such deaths taking place and at this magnitude, in India. I trully enjoyed watching it.

Comment posted by JustMusique (not verified) on April 21st, 2010

A great, inspiring piece of work thats portrays a picture of the world that has yet to improve as the lives of many goes waste in today's time tragically when they could be saved

Comment posted by Hareem (not verified) on April 20th, 2010

I have had a heart for the the down trodden Indian women for as long as I can remember. Susan Meiselas has captured the trauma and anguish of an unnecessary circumstance. Bleeding to death from childbirth should never happen in this day and age. There is no excuse for the lack of medical care for pregnancy and childbirth. Ms. Meiselas' essay is magnificant in how she shows the abuse of women in that system. I hope it gets to the right people who can make a change for them. Thank you for doing it; I know it must have been very difficult.

Comment posted by Robin MacDonald (not verified) on October 20th, 2009

Very moving. Triggering a lot of my own emotions. I had an undiscovered bleed after giving birth and noticed it myself. Had I not woken up in pool of blood, the hospital staff would have just let me die. Lost 3 pints of blood, before it stopped. It also happens in the "developed world" due to carelessness or human error. Makes me very angry, that preventable death occur and women in India have to go through this.

Comment posted by Constanze (not verified) on October 11th, 2009

Nice Work. They dont print this the newspapers.

Comment posted by Ashleigh (not verified) on October 7th, 2009

Life is very hard in the world...where is GOD? I hope that the gate keepers will go into a jail!

Comment posted by Danx (not verified) on October 7th, 2009

The human insensibility is around the world, I ove Photography and I hope this kind of works contribute to make the change, to make the human consciousness, the goberments consciousness see at those needed people and comunities. I Think is not dificult, everything is posible when we want, everything could change, except death.

Comment posted by Darío Torres. (not verified) on October 7th, 2009