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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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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Anyone in or outside of Haiti could use the tool via the web or on a mobile phone to make reports with voice, text or video; the reports were then mapped and sources verified.

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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. Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56. We have a grand plan; my dad calls it the grand plan for global domination [laughs]. Hopefully sometime in 2008 we will be able to establish that office.

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13 Women Changing the World

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Cristi Hegranes Executive Director and Founder, Global Press Institute. 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.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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