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Do What You Can: National Week of Action for Darfur April 6-13

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I just have to do what I can. " -- Jerry Fowler, Executive Director of the Save Darfur Coalition , during an interview on the Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast. April 8 Watch the HBO special, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. I focus on the fact that I don't have to solve it. I don't have to solve the problem.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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In January, Cristi was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 by Women's eNews. We really try and get women from all walks of life to be able to participate in our program, the goal being to provide as many unique voices and opportunities as possible. She was also awarded their annual Ida B.

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13 Women Changing the World

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GPI (formerly the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World) uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women, who produce high-quality local news coverage that elevates global awareness and ignites social change. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (February 6, 2008) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 5.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This year, 2008, is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. No more "women's issues."

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