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One Hand Is Not Enough to Clap

by Nick Cain
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Last month South Sudan celebrated its independence. After a 22-year civil war, it became the world’s newest country (and supplanted Eritrea as Africa’s youngest nation). Independence Day happened to coincide with my visit to Rwanda, a neighboring-but-not-bordering East African nation that is home to Urwego Opportunity Bank, one of Vittana’s

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One in Ten African Girls Drop Out of School. Why? Tampons.

by Sophie

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InQFuOkoLZQ&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] More than one in ten African girls drop out of school. Why? Tampons. As a woman, this infuriates me.  Around the world, girls are still pulled out of school earlier than boys, are denied a family voice, and live with the daily risk of emotional and physical abuse.  Even

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New Focus for Clinton Global Initiative: Girls and Women

by Katie Gruver

Yesterday marked the start of the Clinton Global Initiative’s 2010 Annual Meeting. The hot topic of the day (and the week) was that, for the first time since its inception, CGI was adding a new Action Area to its other three areas: 1) Strengthening Market-based Solutions, 2) Enhancing Access to

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