Published May 20, 2008 @ 06:43PM PT

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Published March 25, 2008 @ 01:21PM PT

Last month, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia amid much controversy. While the mainstream media turned a glaring spotlight on the continuing conflicts and controversies, the work of groups striving for peace and justice in the region remains in the shadows. Yet groups like Global Fund grantees, the Kosova Women’s Network (KWN) and the Women in Black-Belgrade (WIB), are key leaders in the struggle to realize peace, reconciliation and healing in the Balkans (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia).   In a recent LA Times article that detailed a long history of violence against women, Igabelle Rogova, head of the Kosova Women's Network, noted that one of the tasks of a newly independent Kosova will be ensuring that women hav... Read More

Published February 29, 2008 @ 02:02PM PT

Read Global Fund CEO and President Kavita Ramdas' piece in the Nation online on the issue of how race and gender can be powerfully leveraged in the 2008 presidential campaign. The Nation is a leading independent online and print magazine and is America's first weekly magazine. You can post your comments and feedback here.

Published February 19, 2008 @ 05:08PM PT

Mayan Villalba, one of our board members and director of Unlad Kabayan Migrant Services Foundation, a migrant rights advocacy organization, was named Social Entrepreneur for 2007 at the Phillipines Entrepreneur of the Year awards held this month. Mayan won the award in the Social Entrepreneur category "for applying a practical, innovative, and market-oriented approach to her business through creation of products and services that address the challenges faced by communities, help solve complex social problems, and benefit the marginalized and the poor." Mayan was also lauded for "making critical linkages between the migration of overseas Filipino workers to local community development by harnessing migrants’ resources through credit programs and eventually investing these in ... Read More

Published February 12, 2008 @ 09:52AM PT

Mu Sochua, our Board member from Cambodia and an inspiring political leader in her country, was one of seven remarkable women from around the world whose life and contribution was honored in a documentary play called Seven. Produced by the Vital Voices Global Partnership network, the play featured the work of seven award-winning playwrights and premiered in New York last month, to an enthralled audience. Vital Voices is a Global Fund grantee and an international women's nonprofit in Washington, DC, that identifies, trains, and connects emerging women leaders around the world. The production, featuring seven individual monologues told by seven actresses, is a collaboration between Vital Voices and seven award-winning playwrights, including Anna Deavere Smith, and is directed by OBI... Read More

Published February 05, 2008 @ 10:39AM PT

Kenyan sources report that to date, over 1,000 Kenyans have died and over 800,000 are displaced and living in 311 rescue camps all over the country. Kathleen Cravero, director of the U.N. Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, called for aid for Kenyan women and reported that attacks against women have doubled since the outbreak of post-election violence. We have recently reached out to help our Kenyan partners as they scrambled to respond to this unexpected turn of events. One key partner is GROOTS Kenya. Led by a young woman who long ago recognized the potential power of women's collective action, GROOTS Kenya mobilizes women in Nairobi's vast slums and rural communities to respond to crippling poverty, lack of educational opportunities, and staggering numbers of AIDS deaths... Read More

Published January 09, 2008 @ 12:51PM PT

The Nepalese Supreme Court recently ordered that the government should guarantee LGBTI people equal rights as other citizens. Last year, four LGBTI organizations, including Blue Diamond Society, a Global Fund grantee, had filed a petition demanding equal rights for all Nepalese citizens under the country's Constitution and human rights conventions. As in the rest of South Asia, homosexuality is either strictly frowned upon or condemned and is "illegal" in many countries. In addition to this ruling, a committee is likely to be constituted to discuss and recommend legalizing same sex marriage. Useful links: Update from our grantee on the ruling BBC news alert on the ruling Read More