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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

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women became the majority of law students. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. According to the nonprofit American Association of University Women , the U.S. Catalina Escobar , executive director of MAKAIA in Colombia. Law and Advocacy.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

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I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. The challenge to providing help to this quarter of the world’s people is the growing body of anti-terrorism laws in the world, like the USA Patriot Act and Executive Order 13224 in the United States.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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This year, 2008, is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The year before that, women in Morocco won an amazing change in the law. Until then, women had been considered minors under the law. I am always a big believer in that. Walking your talk around human rights.

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