Raising Our Voices
NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN
AUGUST 2005
How To Stop the Import of Nuclear Waste      Cultivating Environmental Justice      Providing Water and Opportunity      Kuna Women Defending Deep-Rooted Values      From Garbage to Gardens      Sustaining Women's Movements Into the Future      Snapshots from the Middle East & North Africa

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The Global Fund for Women is a nonprofit grantmaking foundation that seeds, strengthens and links women's rights organizations in every part of the world.

1375 Sutter Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94109 USA
phone: 415.202.7640
fax: 415.202.8604

www.globalfundforwomen.org

FOUNDING PRESIDENT
Anne Firth Murray

PRESIDENT
Kavita N. Ramdas

EDITOR
Leanne A. Grossman

MANAGING EDITOR
Sande Smith

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Lillian Cincone, Maria McKee

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Melanie Doherty Design

WEB DESIGN
Jose Villegas Design

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jaqueline Pitanguy, Chair
BRAZIL

Amina Mama, Chair-Elect
NIGERIA / SOUTH AFRICA

Adele Simmons, Treasurer
UNITED STATES

Diane Jordan Wexler, Secretary
UNITED STATES

Charlotte Bunch
UNITED STATES

Myrna Cunningham
NICARAGUA

Dina Dublon
UNITED STATES

Sumaya Farhat-Naser
PALESTINE

Stans Kleijnen
THE NETHERLANDS / UNITED STATES

Laurene Powell Jobs
UNITED STATES

Kavita N. Ramdas
INDIA

Olena Suslova
UKRAINE

Zene Tadesse
ETHIOPIA

Mayan Villalba
THE PHILIPPINES

Sakena Yacoobi
AFGHANISTAN