Sara Mojtehedzadeh

Sara Mojtehedzadeh works for Sky News's political desk in Westminister, London. Sara completed her undergraduate degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto and earned a Masters degree in Comparative Politics at the LSE

Politics vs Delivery: the G8’s maternal health agenda

G20 countries are asking why rich nations should continue to direct the form and substance of development programmes when many health innovations now originate in the developing world.

By Sara Mojtehedzadeh

/ 1 Jul 2010

Meeting in monochrome: women and the Afghanistan conference

The picture said it all; an expanse of suits broken only by Hillary's blonde bob floating in their midst. The London Conference on Afghanistan gave birth to sweeping statements and soaring ambitions. But were they, in the end, as flat as those grey rows of suits?

By Sara Mojtehedzadeh

/ 1 Feb 2010

Cuban women: content but not satisfied

It has the 3rd highest proportion of female Members of Parliament in the world; over 70 percent of its health sector workers are women, including 64 percent of doctors; and its Family Code obliges men to share domestic duties and child care responsibilities equally with women.

By Sara Mojtehedzadeh

/ 3 Apr 2009

Maternal Health Sidelined in Uruguay

Almost 800,000 Latin American women die each year from medical hazards associated with abortion, and fatalities resulting from the procedure make up 17 percent of all maternal deaths in the region

By Sara Mojtehedzadeh

/ 29 Nov 2008

The Politics of Exile, Return, and Repentance

The Edge of Heaven, directed by Fatih Akin, is a carefully crafted, tender account of six interwoven lives. Ali is a effervescent Turkish expatriate living in Germany with his bookish

By Sara Mojtehedzadeh

/ 22 Jun 2008