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June 18, 2008
More wonderful news from GIRE!
Our fabulous executive director, María
Luisa Sánchez Fuentes, was chosen by the Feminist Majority Foundation
to be honored with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award. She was presented the
award on May 7th, at the gala Global Awards event co-chaired by Mavis
Nicholson Leno and Jay Leno.
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May 29, 2008
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.
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May 7, 2008
GFW Grantee Founder/Director Gets Elected To Nepali Parliament As First Openly Gay Representative Sunil Babu Pant, founder and former director of Blue Diamond Society, a Global Fund grantee and an organization at the forefront of pushing to end homophobia in Nepali legislation and society, was chosen to represent the 601-member Nepali Constituent Assembly. Read a news article highlighting this historic shift in the Nepali political scene.
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December 18, 2007
Papua New Guinean grantee wins prestigious UNDP award
Kup Women for Peace (KWP), a Global Fund grantee based in Papua New Guinea, has won the seventh Pacific Human Rights Award sponsored by the Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT). The award recognizes groups working on the ground that are keeping a spotlight on human rights abuses within the Pacific Region. Read the Oxfam Press Release for more details.
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May 6, 2008
Turkish Grantee's Media Analyses Highlighted in Local Newspaper
Global Fund grantee MEDİZ, a network of 23 women's organizations in Turkey to monitor gender representation in the media, was featured in Zaman, a popular English news publication based in Istanbul. The news report features the results of its research on how media coverage discriminates against women, conducted as part of a campaign to monitor the representation of women in Turkish media. Read the report
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May 15, 2007
Global Fund Grantees Win Five Prestigious Awards
In the past month Global Fund grantees have won several prestigious awards.
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May 10, 2007
Nepal LGBT Group Fighting for Visibility
The Bay Area Reporter writes about Global Fund grantee, The Blue Diamond Society, and the efforts of Sunil Pant to improve the rights of sexual minorities of Nepal.
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April 12, 2007
Bisi Fayemi in the Nigerian Tribune
Bisi Fayemi, a Nigerian advisor to the Global Fund, is interviewed in the Nigerian Tribune on her work with the African Women's Development Fund and working with her husband to improve the lives of Nigerian women.
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April 24, 2007
Mexican Grantee on NPR's Morning Edition
Maria Luisa Sanchez of Information Group on Reproductive Choice, a Global Fund grantee, was interviewed about the debate over the new abortion legislation in Mexico City.
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April 9, 2007
Girl Child Network Vows to Fight Rapists
After receiving death threats from government officials, Betty Makoni, the director of Global Fund grantee, The Girl Child Network, in Zimbabwe, spoke with reporters about her determination to continue defending the rights of children. Makoni, winner of the Global Friends Award and the World
Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child for 2007, told the Zim Daily:
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April 9, 2007
New Births, New Hope From Afghanistan
This week Yahoo! News teamed up with Direct Relief International, to produce a short story on maternal healthcare in Afghanistan. The story features the work of Global Fund grantee, The Afghan Institute of Learning. Watch the story on You Witness News.
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