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Women, Girls, Education and Global Health: Interview with Carinne Brody

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Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India. She did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This event was very exciting, as we have never previously received federal funding for Bookshare.org. We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

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Have the programs that have been funded done enough to make a difference on this issue? Where is the research funding being given? After working for more than seven years, she hadn't even been able to save a fraction of that money that was needed to fund her dream. The State Department actually has within its mandate prevention.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out. This year a new Sponsorship Fund will help smaller media outlets cover their cost of entry, opening up the awards to more blogs and less-mainstream sites. Annabelle Sreberny: There were also huge demonstrations elsewhere pulling in the diaspora.

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