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Using Technology to Build a More Accountable Bosnia and Herzegovina

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"), have risen as leaders in grassroots organizing and civic activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). "Add to that the fact that we are frequently brought to the brink of war by ongoing ethnic tensions, and you’ll understand why most people here feel a mixture of apathy and disempowerment." (“Enough!”

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

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We currently have nearly 50,000 Facebook fans and posting there helps us reach the most people, though the focus of how we’re using Facebook is changing (more on that below). Book Tour Sponsors ?. Who maintains your social media campaigns? Are they paid, full-time, part-time? That would be me! Book Tour ?. ?

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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For fifteen years China has refused to press its closest ally to allow its people human rights, and used its veto power to block the UN Security Council from acting. We are calling on people of conscience throughout the world to boycott the 2008 Chinese Olympics." Claire of Free Aung San Suu Kyi!

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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The way we do that is by asking every single woman around the world to sponsor one woman at a time by sending her $27 a month, along with a letter to start a communication link between the two women. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. You get her picture. Every single one.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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The show ended, and I immediately signed up to be a Women for Women International sponsor. Through the blistering heat and through rain storms, she walked over 150 miles to Bukavu, a village that had become a haven for people fleeing the war. Sissel of the Sissel Byington Photography blog sponsors a women each year. And walked.

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