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December 28, 2005
Women's Work: Other Tales of Democracy Building
San Francisco Chronicle
The Global Fund was recently the subject of a San Francisco Chronicle editorial exploring the unique role of women to advance peace and democracy, "What's notable is that these women are able to do so much with so little, to build a foundation for democracy worldwide from the ground up.
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December 20, 2005
Women After Natural Disasters
KQED Radio
Kavita Ramdas, Global Fund for Women President & CEO, discusses the disproportionate effects of natural disasters, such as the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, on women's lives on this episode of Forum with Michael Krasny. Other guests include Beverly Inman-Ebel, Charlotte Lindsey and Laila Khan
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December 15, 2005
Women and Disasters
Hindustan Times
A report titled 'Caught in the Storm' detailing the disproportionate impact on women of the December 26th tsunami and other disasters that occurred this year was released on Tuesday, December 13th by the San Francisco based Global Fund for Women (GFW). The fund is the largest foundation in the world working globally towards advancing women's rights.
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Women 'Bore Brunt of Tsunami'
Agence France-Presse
Three times as many women as men died in the vast tsunami that struck about a dozen Asian countries just after Christmas last year, a report by the Global Fund for Women said. The San Francisco-based foundation said women also bore the brunt of key disasters this year, from Hurricane Stan in Guatemala to the massive earthquake in Kashmir and Hurricane Katrina in the US.
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December 13, 2005
Women Suffer Most in Aftermath of Natural Disasters, Report Says
Associated Press
Women face a variety of hardships during and after natural disasters, according to the report, "Caught in the Storm," released Tuesday [December 13, 2005] by the San Francisco-based Global Fund for Women, an international human rights group.
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December 2005
Local Women Change Face of Philanthropy
Bay Area BusinessWoman News
The power to write a check is the power to change the world. That's what countless women are discovering as they move from economic independence to a position where they can use their financial strength to support the causes they believe in. This is not only changing the world; it is changing the face of philanthropy. "Women, if respected and listened to, have solutions the world needs to hear," says Leanne Grossman, Global Fund Director of Communications.
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November 11, 2005
Afghanistan - The Shame of Reconstruction
Huffington Post
Bob Burnett, a writer and Global Fund supporter, recently interviewed Global Fund Board member Sakena Yacoobi about the inadequate efforts of the US in rebuilding Afghanistan, particularly in delivering education to thousands of Afghan girls. Sakena, the Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning, which provides education to more than 350,000 Afghan women and girls each year, lamented, "If Afghanistan is to become a democracy, the people need to be educated."
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November 11, 2005
Praise is Heaped on Unsung Heroes
Idaho Mountain Express
On November 6, 2005, His Holiness, the Dalai Lama honored 48 Unsung Heroes of Compassion from around the world. The event, hosted by Dick Grace, of Grace Family Vineyards, lauded people from around the world for their extraordinary acts of compassion. Kavita N. Ramdas, Global Fund President and CEO, closed the event asking all to take compassionate steps to assist others.
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Read Kavita's Speach (I can link that once we're done with events)
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/involved/events/2004-2005/dalai-lama.html
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January 6, 2005
Unlad-Kabayan Migrant Services Foundation Wins Changemakers Innovation Award
Changemakers
Mayan Villalba, a member of the Global Fund Board of Directors, is Executive Director of Unlad-Kabayan Migrant Services Foundation, one of the winners of The Changemakers Innovation Award. The Foundation won based on their ideas for creatively generating resources from a diversified citizen base.
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1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005
Global Fund grantees, advisors and board members are among the 1,000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Global Fund is honored to work with these extraordinary women, and we congratulate all of the nominees from around the world.
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Muadi Mukenge on the Women's Movement in Africa
Africa Today, KPFA Radio, Berkeley
In honor of International Women's Day 2005, Program Officer for Africa, Muadi Mukenge was interviewed on KPFA radio along with Dorcas Coker-Appiah of the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre, Ghana, and Anne Wanjiru of GROOTS, Kenya, both Global Fund for Women grantees.
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