Global Fund for Women

Global Fund for Women

Promoting women’s economic security, health, education and leadership

Asia and Oceania

Article List

# Item Title
1 Global Fund Grantee Named Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs
2 Zanaa Jurmed Awarded Order of the Red Star
3 Global Fund for Women Responds to Tsunami: Awards Over $50,000 Directly to Women's Organizations
4 Battling Against Odds for a Cause
5 Women's Rights Widely Abused in Asian Tsunami Zone
6 GFW Advisor, Mu Sochua, Receives Award For Anti-Trafficking Efforts, Cambodia
7 Rape of Army Daughter Confirms License To Rape Systemic in Burma
8 Head to Head: Pakistan's Mixed-Sex Row
9 International Women's Rights Prize Honors Global Fund Grantees
10 Extremists Cross the Border: A Major Concern to Rebuilding Afghanistan
11 Legacy of Conflict: Women's Rights in Vietnam and Cambodia
12 Trekking Through Nepal
13 Ganga's Story
14 Afghan Women Welfare Department
15 Empowering the Women of Nepal / 3 Sisters Adventure Trekking
16 Kalyanamitra Foundation
17 Legal Aid Division of Shaanxi Women's Federation
18 EcoWomen
19 Women and War
20 Women in Islam
21 A Discussion of Islamic Feminism
22 The Tsunami Learning Project
23 Afghan Grantee on NPR
24 Stories of Sanghar
25 Hope Blooms in the Desert
26 Lifting Up Tibet's Women
27 Kickboxing Against Violence in Hong Kong
28 Celebration in Nepal
29 Bringing Women into Cambodian Politics
30 Outer Voices
31 Tsunami in the Solomon Islands
32 Surviving the Tsunami
33 New Births, New Hope From Afghanistan
34 Nepal LGBT Group Fighting for Visibility
35 Global Fund Grantees Win Five Prestigious Awards
36 Pakistani Women Struggle for Their Rights
37 Now or Never Fund Update
38 The Chance to be Free
39 An Urgent Update On Burma!
40 Pakistani Grantees Resist The Emergency!
41 GAATW Conference Reviews Impact of Anti-Trafficking Work!
42 Papua New Guinean grantee wins prestigious UNDP award
43 Papua New Guinean grantee wins prestigious UNDP award
44 Nepal's Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Gay Rights
45 Global Fund Board Member Mu Sochua honored in remarkable documentary play
46 Global Fund's Board Member Mayan Villalba Wins Entrepreneurship Award
47 Womens eNews recognizes Van Anh Nguyen
48 Global Fund grantee ARROW releases a dynamic report on Sexual and Reproductive Health
49 GFW Grantee Founder/Director Gets Elected To Nepali Parliament As First Openly Gay Representative
50 Burmese Grantee Shares Vital Updates On Cyclone Relief Crisis
51 GFW Grantee Founder/Director Gets Elected To Nepali Parliament As First Openly Gay Representative
52 Global Fund Grantees Featured on PBS' Foreign Exchange
53 Two Global Fund Grantees Among 2008 Gruber Women’s Prize Recipients
54 Malalai Joya: Bravest Woman of Afghanistan?
55 Indonesia
56 Globalization Is Further Marginalizing Communities Already On The Fringe: Taiwanese Grantee
57 Global Fund for Women Awards Over $1.7 Million To 121 Groups In 60 Countries
58 GFW Highlighted in Anna Quindlen's Newsweek Column
59 SF Chronicle Op-Ed on the Global Gag Rule by GFW Vice President Shalini Nataraj
60 The Nation Magazine Blogs on Afghanistan: Interview with Kavita Ramdas
61 Huffington Post: Open Letter to President Obama By Eve Ensler, Kavita Ramdas, Zainab Salbi
62 December Grant Cycle: Over $1.6 million Awarded To Groups in 55 Countries
63 Twenty Years of Investing in Women | Video
64 Build Infrastructure Not Bases: Board Member Sakena Yacoobi Interview In FPIF
65 Kavita Ramdas On The Pink Chaddis Campaign: Feminist Magazine Radio Show
66 Huffington Post Article on the Chinese Invasion of California Legislature
67 Board Member Sakena Yacoobi Wins the Kravis Prize
68 SF Chronicle Article on Nepal Highlights How a Local Activist is Challenging Indentured Labor
69 Slumdog Millionnaire: Read A Local Activist and GFW Supporter's Critique
70 Global Fund Condemns Abusive Acts Against Board Member Mu Sochua
71 Out for Justice
72 Young Women at AWID: Sowing a Multi-Generational Movement
73 Now or Never Fund: Philanthropy Rising to the Challenge
74 Dutch Government Invests in Women's Empowerment
75 Global Fund for Women Challenges Militarism
76 Global Fund for Women Awards $1.8 Million to Women's Groups
77 As I Walk to Prison: A Letter From GFW Board Member Mu Sochua
78 Update on Mu Sochua to our Supporters Courtesy: Vital Voices
79 GFW Program Associate Speaks Out Against iPhone App
80 Sex slaves' crusader battles pimps, credit crisis
81 North Korea: Path to Journalists Freedom Paved by Diplomacy
82 GFW Grantee Sisters in Islam Under Threat By Fundamentalist Party: Sign Petition Now!
83 Education: The Difference between Choice and Opportunity
84 Burma: Festering Wound in Southeast Asia
85 Burma – Festering Wound in Southeast Asia
86 Pride Celebrations Sri Lanka Style
87 India’s Stonewall? Delhi Court Decriminalizes ‘Sodomy’ Law Against Homosexuality
88 India's Stonewall? Delhi Court Decriminalizes "Sodomy" Law Against Homosexuality
89 Global Fund Demands Justice for Cambodian Board Member Mu Sochua
90 Grantee Brings Women Together in War-torn Sri Lanka
91 GFW's Soon to be Program Officer Publicly Recognized by Hillary Clinton in Delhi
92 Women Cab Drivers: Trailblazing In the Unlikeliest Places
93 Popular Indian Magazine Features Inspiring Interview With GFW's Kavita Ramdas
94 Those Crafty Arts
95 Grantee Partner and Kavita Ramdas Cited in The Nation Op-ed About Military Presence in Afghanistan
96 Global Fund for Women Awards $1.8 Million to Promote Women's Leadership in 61 Countries
97 Time for Diplomacy with North Korea: Global Fund's Christine Ahn on KQED
98 Prostitution May Be Legalized in Taiwan: Reuters Article Quotes Grantee
99 Elections Alone Won't Help Afghan Women: Kavita Ramdas in CommonDreams.org
100 10 Reasons to Resist the War in Afghanistan: Kavita Ramdas quoted in Pakistan Daily
101 Sustainable Social Change: Our Commitment to the Women’s Movement
102 Kavita Ramdas Among Influential Speakers at TED India
103 Mu Sochua: You Can’t Fight Injustice Halfway
104 Mongolian Women: Undaunted by Adversity
105 Pardoned: For What?
106 'I Can Be Arrested Anytime': Former Board Member Mu Sochua
107 Women for Afghan Women Featured on CNN Video
108 Kavita Ramdas in Seattle Times; Africa Program Director Speaks in Chicago
109 Cambodian Parliament Party Denounces Guilty Verdict for Mu Sochua
110 The Ten Conditions of Love
111 "One Day, One Struggle" International Campaign by CSBR to Promote Human Rights In Muslim Societies
112 Redesigning Community: Kavita Ramdas Speaks At TED India
113 Musings on TED India
114 Bloggers Remember TEDIndia: The Good, the Bad and the Quirky
115 Snapshots: How Rural Indian Women Are Carving Their Future
116 Kavita Ramdas To Attend White House Dinner for Indian Prime Minister
117 "The Drizzle, The Wait, Then The Handshake": Kavita Ramdas On The State Dinner at the White House
118 From Kawangware to Xi’an: Reflections On World AIDS Day
119 Women’s Voices: Drowned Out in the Climate Change Talks?
120 Kavita Ramdas in KQED Radio on the Afghanistan Troop Surge
121 Celebrating 30 Years of CEDAW: From San Francisco to Sao Paulo
122 Board Member Gay McDougall Demands Chinese Accountability on Uyghur Rights
123 2009 Wins for Women
124 Sometimes Change is About Who Washes the Dishes: GFW's MDG3 Goals
125 GFW Awards $1.48 Million to Women's Groups
126 Former Board Member, Mu Sochua, Profiled in The New York Times
127 Former Board Member and Cambodian Crusader Bids for Re-election
128 Updates from Fiji: Aftermath of Cyclone Tomas
129 GFW Condemns Intimidation of Sisters in Islam
130 Women Moving Millions Campaign and Afghan Institute of Learning on ABC News
131 Islamic Protestors Force Evacuation of ILGA Conference Participants in Surabaya
132 Taking on the Challenge...
133 State of the World’s Women: Christine Ahn and Anasuya Sengupta in Foreign Policy in Focus
134 From California to Cambodia Fighting for Women: Former Board Member Mu Sochua In the New York Times
135 GFW Awards $1.6 Million to Women’s Groups in 58 Countries
136 Earth Day Action: Demand Halt of Military Build-up in Guam
137 Board Member Sakena Yacoobi on NPR: Islamic Feminists Transforming the Middle East
138 Mu Sochua Wins Human Rights Award
139 Tibetan Grantees Send Post-Earthquake Updates
140 Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network: Mothers Defy Militarism
141 Sex Worker Rights are Human Rights
142 Prison Perspectives: Reflecting on Mu Sochua’s Arrest
143 Reclaiming Peace: Manipur Mothers Defy Militarism | Video
144 Spotlight Afghanistan: Activist Sakena Yacoobi
145 Why We Need a U.S.-Based Feminist Anti-Militarism Movement
146 Global Fund for Women Awards $1.89 million to Women’s Groups in 67 Countries
147 'Beyond the Fence': Guam Radio Highlights Militarism in the Pacific
148 Queering Chennai: My Experiences of Pride Home and Taking Pride in Being Home!
149 Dangerous Waters in Korea: Christine Ahn in the New York Times
150 GFW's Advisory Council Highlighted in Fast Company Blog
151 GFW in Solidarity with Flood-Affected Communities in Pakistan
152 From Techphobe to Tech-realist: Technology As an Ally of Human Rights
153 Kavita Ramdas on the Recent TIME Cover
154 Kolkata Sanved: Dancing is a Part of the Movement!
155 Tongan Grantee Says NO to Sending Its Troops to Afghanistan
156 Update from Our Grantee Partners in Pakistan
157 We Refuse to Be Enemies
158 Floods and Feminism: The Plight of Pakistan's Women
159 Global Fund Voices on Three Radio Shows on Pacifica Airwaves
160 On Labor Day: Making Visible Women Workers’ Struggles
161 The Women of Pakistan Thank You
162 Education: Afghan Institute of Learning
163 Asia & Oceania: Building Solidarity
164 Is the Women's Movement Being Co-Opted?
165 Why LGBT Rights are Human Rights
166 The Women's Movement is Global and Local
167 Small Grants, Big Impact
168 Another World is On Her Way
169 Impact of Militarism on Women in Asia & Oceania
170 Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice | Guam/Guahan
171 Violence Against Women Is No Rationale for Military Violence
172 More Troops Alone Won't Help Afghan Women
173 Build Infrastructure, Not Bases
174 Militarism Facts
175 Where No Funders Go: $1.5 Million for Women's Human Rights
176 Global Fund Celebrates Aung San Suu Kyi's Release
177 Women Donors Network Learning Circle
178 GFW Grantee Wins Activist Award
179 Funding a Global Movement to End Violence Against Women
180 Re-energized by Transnational Feminist Exchanges
181 Our Bodies, Our Choices: Funding Reproductive Rights Globally
182 Making I.T. Our Own: ISIS International Empowers Women Through I.T.
183 From Chernobyl, Lessons for Maternal Health in Japan
184 The IMF: Violating Women since 1945
185 Changing Spaces: Civic Leadership
186 After the Floods: Women Rebuilding Pakistan
187 Women Help Promote a Just Global Economy
188 Key Women’s Voices Missing from Clinton’s Speech
189 Flex Your Tech
190 And Still We Rise: Stories from our Annual Report
191 Building a Safe Haven
192 Bold and Defiant
193 Challenging Military, Safeguarding Women
194 High-Heeled Human Rights Defenders
195 Breaking Through: Gender Equality in Asia & the Pacific
196 Mothers in Action
 

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