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November 16, 2006
GFW on Lisa Birnbach Show
Last week Global Fund President and CEO, Kavita Ramdas, spoke with Lisa Birnbach of Greenstone Media. Listen to their conversation here:
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October 2006
$1.6 Million Granted in October 2006
The Global Fund for Women is pleased to announce our autumn grants! After evaluating hundreds of proposals, we have awarded $1.6 million to 125 women's rights organizations in 58 countries. With 59 new grantees this fall, we wanted to highlight some of these remarkable organizations.
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August 12, 2006
What's Good for Women's Bodies Is Good for the Body Politic
Last month the University of Washington aired a talk by Kavita Ramdas entitled, "What's Good for Women's Bodies Is Good for the Body Politic" highlighting the importance of investing in education, healthcare, and employment for women. As Kavita told the Seattle audience, as long as women's inequality exists, "our aspirations for a democratic world or any kind of a healthy body politic will remain unrealized."
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May 2006
Taking A Stand for Migrant Rights!
As a gesture of solidarity and support for migrant rights in the United States and around the world, the Global Fund for Women closed its offices Monday, May 1, International Worker's Day, and participated in local demonstrations.
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April 17, 2006
Talk Looks at Social Effects of Women's Health
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Being a woman who grew up in a developing country... I saw firsthand the impact that a lack of good health in women does to a society," says Global Fund President & CEO, Kavita N. Ramdas, who spoke in Seattle about the connection between women's health and the health of society. "How can you have successful, strong vibrant economies in which two-thirds of labor tends to be undernourished?"
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March 6,2006
Global Fund for Women Representatives from Kenya,
Cameroon, Guinea
Africa Today, KPFA Radio
Africa Today host Walter Turner speaks with members of the Global Fund for Women's network of grantees, advisors and sister organizations from Kenya, Cameroon Guinea. Three African women activists speak about the issues facing African women and how women's groups are working for change across the continent.
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May 16, 2006
Founding Donor Esther Hewlett Honored By Women's eNews
Women's eNews
Esther Hewlett, founding donor and former board member of the Global Fund, is being honored with the annual Women's eNews prize, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, for her work and dedication to women's rights as a donor activist.
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Indian Widows Focus on Devotion, Fatalism
San Jose Mercury News
Of the human rights abuses experienced by widows in India and throughout the world, Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women says, "In many parts of the world, they say a goat is worth more than a woman. Only where women find the courage to speak out do those things change."
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Spring Break Used for Helping Others
San Jose Mercury News
Thousands of students are spending their vacations learning about global warming or helping Hurricane Katrina victims rebuild their homes on "alternative spring breaks"—service trips run by non-profits to boost awareness of world problems. How much impact can college students have on a world crisis of this size? A lot, according to Anne Firth Murray, a Stanford professor and activist who founded the Global Fund for Women.
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What Women Really Want: A Conversation Between Global Fund Co-founder Frances Kissling & Kavita Ramdas
Audio Interview
Questioning the role and relevance of the women's movement today, they discuss what it means to be a feminist, some of the differences (and similarities) for women in the Global North and South and even the role for men.
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February 16, 2006
Meeting on Domestic Violence and Trafficking Held in San Francisco
HindustanTimes.com
The first ever one-day symposium titled "Ending Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century" attracted about 450 participants including business leaders, health care providers, educators, advocates, faith leaders and policy makers. In the workshop titled 'Confronting Global Human Trafficking: an International Perspective on Violence Against Women', Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women opined, "Trafficking is more than a legal and a law enforcement problem. We look at trafficking as a human rights issue."
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In Times of Trouble, Nations Turn to Women
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Where trouble and corruption hang in the air, voters around the world are increasingly turning to women to clean up the mess left behind by bad-old-boy networks. Kavita Ramdas, President & CEO of the Global Fund for Women, says that women's recent political successes in Liberia and elsewhere in Africa "are very much related to the decimation of the continent by AIDS and civil conflict."
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January 2, 2006
Number of Political Gains for Women in '05
Associated Press
"This has been a year in which women have taken grassroots struggles and transformed them into something bigger by developing a very considered political strategy," said Kavita Ramdas, president of the San Francisco-based Global Fund for Women, which provides grants to women's rights groups around the world.
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