News Round Up: August 19, 2009

Lots of news items today from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Also, Eve Ensler has harsh words for Schwarzenegger’s California budget cuts:

Philanthropy

The New York Times Sunday Magazine features a story on women-led philanthropy – and Women Moving Millions!

Sidebars to the Saving the World’s Women special issue to the Sunday Magazine:

Feature on ‘the daughter deficit’ in societies
Organizations supporting women in the developing world

Lead story by Nicholas Kristof

San Antonio Area Foundation launches a Women & Girls Development Fund

Violence

Eve Ensler shames California Gov. Schwarzenegger for ‘terminating’ the state’s domestic violence budget (Huffingtonpost.com)

Two anti-violence programs in Kansas City, Missouri, have received half-a-million dollars in federal stimulus package funding (KC FOX
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Leadership

The New York Times interviews U.S. Sec. of State Clinton on her gender agenda

An opinion in the Boston Globe criticizes the Iranian leader’s intentions of putting women in the Cabinet
The Los Angeles Times profiles a radio station in Pakistan’s tribal regions that promotes women

Education

A Christian Science Monitor feature says boys – and girls – are returning to school again in Pakistan’s war-torn Swat Valley

Economy

An opinion in Britain’s Guardian criticizes welfare-to-work programs as a disservice to the poor – and society

CNN looks at areas hit by Hurricane Katrina, four years on
Black-owned businesses hit hard

Afghanistan’s Vote

An opinion in Women’s eNews warns on the rights of Afghan women

Sports

An 18-year-old South African runner who produced the fifth fastest 800-m dash in history is now being asked whether she’s really a girl after all (Britain’s Telegraph)

Miscellaneous

A Newsweek columnist decries the attention paid to the U.S. first lady’s attire

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