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- Ellen Marshall and David Harwood
- • June 5, 2022
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Adrienne Germain, who helped shape international development and women’s rights for more than four decades, died on May 19, 2022, at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 75 years old. Her passionate advocacy on behalf of the sexual…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 9, 2015
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The Hindu nationalist Indian government, on a campaign against independent advocacy groups, ordered the closing of Greenpeace India and gave it 30 days to disband, the organization said on Nov.6. The move comes only weeks before the important United…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 25, 2015
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Advocates offering some alternative ideas and a few dissenting views on the Sustainable Development Goals on track to be adopted by the United Nations at a special session later this year are convening on Jan. 26 in New York…
- Categories: Development, Governance, LGBT, SDGs, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 27, 2013
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Fazle Hasan Abed runs the world’s largest nongovernmental development organization. He has garnered numerous international prizes, honorary degrees, very important friends and a British knighthood. Yet in the United States, Abed’s successes, won through a creative self-help program centered…
- Categories: Asia, Development, Women
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