G8 must fulfill pledges to women and children

"Making promises is one thing. Keeping them is another. If the G8 is really to deliver on and monitor the Muskoka Initiative - as it said it would last week - we must see it reported against in the 2012 G8 accountability report, with the gaps in aid information addressed," Betsy McCallon, deputy director of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, writes on the Guardian's "Poverty Matters Blog" (6/2).