Her family had postponed the service while they battled for their Zimbabwean relatives to gain visas to attend but began planning their daughter's funeral after learning earlier this month that the UK government would allow her maternal grandparents and aunt to travel over from Africa.
Poor maternal health, sexually transmitted infections, infant mortality, violence, abuse, illiteracy, isolation, psychological trauma and suicide are common among young brides.
"None of the scheduled physical and developmental assessments that would normally occur in the community (typically by a maternal child health nurse) occur at Christmas Island immigration detention centre".
Masks, by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) and Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), is a chillingly dark tale of maternal vigilantism, while up-and-coming talent Christian Ward (Infinite Vacation, Young Avengers) adapted Margaret Atwood's short story Freeforall, a typically dystopian vision of love and marriage.
"Yet all too often the world's poorest people – the majority of who are women – miss out of these opportunities," she said, noting Papua New Guinea had one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world despite having experienced more than 10 years of uninterrupted gross domestic product growth.
On the other were NGO workers who complained that I had failed to mention female genital mutilation and maternal mortality, in their view central features of the African sexual experience.
On the stump, her maternal qualifications were always as important to her as her political positions.
The books now tackle a number of critical healthcare issues outside of suicide prevention such as HIV and Aids, malaria, maternal health and clinical trials.
It's tough being Silvio Berlusconi's 28-year-old fiancee: on top of the stories of bunga bunga parties, Francesca Pascale had to contend with maternal disapproval when her parents discovered she was dating a man who, while still equipped with a deep tan and even deeper pockets, turns 77 this weekend.
Unlike her Yorkshire contemporary, Henry Moore, who typically made mother-and-child pieces as single figures, Hepworth conceived of her maternal works as two separate bodies, intimately involved.
While maternal mortality rates and birthing injuries remain high, Arrowsmith continues to give his time to changing the lives of women living with fistula.
