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.

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.

Listen to the podcast (58:38)

Special award ceremony will be held at the United Nations in New York City in conjunction with International Human Rights Day

NEW YORK – Sakena Yacoobi, founder and president of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), is being honored today with the Peter Gruber Foundation's 2004 International Women's Rights Prize. Yacoobi earned this year's prize for her courageous vision and leadership in implementing quality education, human rights training, and safe healthcare for women and children in Afghanistan. The Global Fund for Women has provided grant support for Yacoobi's organization for nearly 12 years, and she was recently elected to the Global Fund for Women's board of directors.

by The Board of Directors of the Global Fund for Women

The Board of Directors of the Global Fund for Women, leaders from many nations, including Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Israel, Nicaragua, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Ukraine and the United States, is deeply concerned about the growing militarism that dominates world affairs.