Amnesty International Activates Maternal Death Clock in NYC's Times Square Sending Powerful Message to United Nations to Reduce Deaths in Childbirth A

Digital Billboard Clock Will Count One Death Per 90 Seconds and Tally Nearly One Thousand Dead Every Day During the Three-Day Summit(New York) -- Amnesty International activated a "maternal death clock" in Times Square Monday to send a powerful message about the tragic price of poverty worldwide -- one woman dying in childbirth every 90 seconds or 981 women a day -- as world leaders gathered at the United Nations for the start of a progress review on reducing poverty. As activists pointed silently upward, the clock on a digital billboard above Times Square launched at 9 a.m. EDT. The