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2007 Grantee News

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.
 
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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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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