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August 7, 2008
AIDS Group Cites Rapes in Zimbabwe as Terror Tool
A 13-year-old girl was abducted, then raped repeatedly over a two-week period during a campaign of political terror in Zimbabwe surrounding recent elections there.Hers is one of 53 cases documented by AIDS-Free World, an advocacy group investigating rape as a political weapon in Zimbabwe, activists said Thursday at a news conference at the 17th International AIDS Conference here
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June 17, 2008
Washington Post Article Highlights Global Fund Grantee Partner Betty Makoni
Read an inspiring article in the Washington Post on women forging ahead amid huge barriers. The article highlights the work of Global Fund grantee Betty Makoni of the Zimbabwean group Girl Child Network and also features Kavita Ramdas, Global Fund CEO and President. Read the article.
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July 17, 2008
 GRITtv Discussion Features Global Fund Grantees from Egypt and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Watch an engaging and inspiring discussion on GRITtv hosted by Laura Flanders. Global Fund grantees Professor Hoda Elsadda from Egypt and Taida Horozovic from Bosnia and Herzogovina (BiH) highlight the importance of solidarity among women especially in a time of war and violence. Also featuring Zeina Zaatari, GFW Senior Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa, the discussion also addresses the value and power of sisterhood that extends across and beyond borders. Watch the show.
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July 15, 2008
 Voice of America highlights Global Fund grantees Leymah Gbowe (Liberia), Patricia Guerrero (Colombia) and Prudence Mabele (South Africa) in this radio feature. Listen to the feature or read the transcript that also includes quotes from Dechen Tsering, Program Officer for Asia and Oceania, Erika Guevara Rosas, Program Officer for the Americas, and Sande Smith, GFW Director of Public Education.
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June 13, 2008
Global Fund Grantees Featured on PBS' Foreign Exchange  Watch an engrossing discussion on Foreign Exchange
with host Daljit Dhaliwal and Global Fund grantees that aired on June
13. The discussion with activists Leymah Gbowee from Liberia, Zainah
Anwar from Malaysia and Taida Horozovic from Bosnia and Herzegovina
included topics such as globalization's impact on women. Watch the discussion (scroll down for June 13 archive)
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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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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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