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Democracy Now!: Amy Goodman interviews Global Fund for Women CEO Kavita Ramdas about the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Change.org's Women's Rights Blog: Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service, says women are making positive changes happen in communities throughout the world.

USA Today: Equality Now says many nations have failed to repeal discriminatory laws against women regarding marriage, economic and personal status, and violent acts including rape.

Pittsburgh Post Gazette: To solve the world's problems, the G-20 must look to 60 percent of the work force in an Op-Ed by The Global Fund for Women and the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern PA.

Women's Media Center Commentary: The author, a veteran fund-raiser, explains new data on women’s generosity—and how the projects they support strategically expand possibilities for women and girls around the world.

The Washington Post, Opinion: Rape as a weapon of war has increased in eastern Congo since June 2008. 

San Francisco Business Times Article: According to a first of its kind report by the Foundation Center in New York and Women’s Funding Network in San Francisco, giving to women’s causes by private and community foundations is growing faster than philanthropy as a whole, a new study finds.