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 Celebrate 20 years of Grantmaking that Builds Global Leadership
On June 5th 2008, the Global Fund will hold a gala fundraiser in New York that will honor Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and celebrate JP Morgan Chase's leadership in supporting women's rights for more than a decade. Dateline NBC co-anchor Ann Curry will emcee.
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NEWS
 Global Fund Grantees Celebrate
Anniversary of Law Decriminalizing Abortion
Last week, Mexico City celebrated its first anniversary of passing a law decriminalizing abortion in the capital of the world's second largest Catholic country. More than 10 million women in Mexico City and its suburbs now can benefit from this important legislation. Read a letter from three of our grantee partners in Mexico, Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir (CDD), Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia (Equidad) and Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE), about this historic occasion. Read More
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Kavita Ramdas and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on KQED radio, Friday, May 2
Global Fund President and CEO Kavita Ramdas recently moderated a discussion with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Director
of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of a new
book, "Common Wealth -- Economics for a Crowded Planet" when he
appeared at the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley last month. Listen to the podcast
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Inspiring Accounts About Women's Leadership
Blogger Inspires Parents of Premature Babies
Submitted by Sarah Kuriakose, Goleta, CA, USA
I think Billie, who blogs at micropreemietwins.blogspot.com, is a leader. She is the mother of two children born months early, who have multiple and severe disabilities. She is an inspiration in the little world whose lives are consumed with the number of days in the NICU, number of hours of therapy per week, and number of milestones that are still to be reached...
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 Global Fund Learns First Hand About the Women's Movement in Colombia and Ecuador
In January 2008, Erika Guevara Rosas, Global Fund Program Officer for the Americas, spent two weeks with Global Fund grantees in Colombia and Ecuador. Her report shares invaluable insights about the challenges facing women in the two countries.
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