More than a million women have died because rich nations have failed to honour their commitments to promote sexual and reproductive health, a group of NGOs said at the launch of a new campaign in London last Thursday. About three-quarters of a million pregnant women and newly delivered mothers in the developing world died over the five-year period between 1996 and 2001, the groups say. But the total number will be considerably more in the ten years now since the developed countries made their commitment at the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994, say the non-governmental organisations (NGOs).