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Two humanitarian groups are making a difference for young girls in Nepal. Room to Read, a foundation building libraries around the world has partnered with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program to bring computers to school-aged children in Nepal.

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When you picture a farmer in your mind, what do you see? Do you picture a man tilling a field? If you did, this picture may denote a misconception about the gender of most farmers.

Vital Voices Pulitzer-Prize Winning Play “Ruined” Staged in DC – Chouchou Namegabe Featured in Panel Discussion
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Playwright Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-Prize winning work, “Ruined,” was staged on the evening of November 9 at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC with the cooperation of The Enough Project. A powerful depiction ...

Vital Voices Read this short interview with Joanne Sandler, deputy executive director of UNIFEM. She discusses the new umbrella women's UN entity, which has yet to be named.
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On Sep. 14, the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly adopted a resolution that opened the door for the creation of a new U.N. agency specifically for women.

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Wal-Mart Store Inc. has teamed with the leading humanitarian group CARE to launch a series of programs designed to lift women around the world out of poverty.

Vital Voices Top Women Executives: Teresa Carlson of Microsoft
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TERESA CARLSON Teresa Carlson has been with Microsoft since 2002. In September 2008, Carlson was tapped vice president of Microsoft’s ...

Vital Voices Sec. of State Hillary Clinton spoke about women's rights and Vital Voices: "And they wear their little pins, the kind of V’s that look like wings taking flight that give them a better future."
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On November 6, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the “No Limits” public policy conference where she spoke of her dedication to the promotion of women’s rights around the world. Clinton also ...

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On November 6 the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) launched a new advocacy program called “Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence Against Women”. The campaign serves to spotlight international efforts to garner attention and action on the issue of violence against women.

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On November 6, 1990, forty women publicly drove their cars into the capital of Saudi Arabia. Each citizen was detained, stripped of their passport, and fired from their job because in Saudi Arabia, women do not have the right to drive.

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Diane Von Furstenberg said in MarieClaire: "All women are strong. I have yet to meet one who isn't. They simply
don't exist. When I first heard about Vital Voices and its mission, I
knew I'd found an organization that believes in what I believe: that
women worldwide should be given the tools and resources they need to be
s...uccessful on their own. My ultimate dream is to empower every woman on
this earth to be the best woman she can be."Read More
don't exist. When I first heard about Vital Voices and its mission, I
knew I'd found an organization that believes in what I believe: that
women worldwide should be given the tools and resources they need to be
s...uccessful on their own. My ultimate dream is to empower every woman on
this earth to be the best woman she can be."Read More
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No matter what happens in retail or on the runways, there's one thing that never goes out of style: giving back. In celebration of our 15th anniversary, MC honors 15 designers who don't just make our world look more beautiful, they make it better.

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Cuzco, Peru is an ancient capital of the Incan empire and a city where two out of three women suffer from sexual or physical violence, according to the World Health Organization. In fact, Cuzco retains one of the world’s highest rates of violence against women.

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Remembering Neda Soltan, Iranian Protester -CNN.
On the night before her death, she dreamt: "There was a war going on, and I was in the front."
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The night before she was killed on the streets of Tehran, the woman the world would come to know simply as Neda had a dream. "There was a war going on," she told her mom the next morning, "and I was in the front."

Vital Voices Vietnamese Writer Jailed for Support of Pro-Democracy Activists
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In early October, writer and pro-democracy advocate Tran Khai Thanh Thuy was reportedly beaten and jailed for her public support of nine detained human rights activists in Vietnam. The Writers in Prison ...

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Malaysia’s largest political coalition is calling for an increase in female leadership. The Barisan Nasional (BN) contains three component parties each representing of one of Malaysia’s three main ethnic groups. ...

Vital Voices The story of one doctor fighting for the human rights of young girls
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An American doctor offers hope to women or, often, girls of 13, 14, 15 in West Africa who are ostracized because of incontinence.


















