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Clinton Promotes Women's Rights Treaty That U.S. Has Not Joined

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 11.20.2011

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NEW YORK -- On the eve of high-level meetings for the United Nations' general assembly, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended an event on Monday...

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Invest in Women to Improve the World

Emmie Twombly | Posted 09.05.2011

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Emmie Twombly

The women of Vital Voices show that you cannot let obstacles big or small keep you down. The women and their stories taught me that you cannot use your past or circumstance to hide behind.

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What Do Jim Grant and Melanne Verveer Have in Common?

Stephenie Foster | Posted 06.21.2011

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Stephenie Foster

If we are successful at mainstreaming gender and valuing women and girls, we will have better outcomes across the board.

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Don't Know Melanne Verveer? Why you Should

Homa Sabet Tavangar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Homa Sabet Tavangar

Women stand at the center of every type of dramatic change occurring in the world today: whether it's coordinating relief in Japan, consolidating democracy in Egypt or running Facebook.

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Exclusive: U.S. Global Women's Issues Ambassador On Human Rights

Rahim Kanani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Human Rights, Violence Against Women, Cedaw, International Women's Day, International Development, Melanne Verveer, Women's Issues, Global Women's Issues, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, Impact News
Rahim Kanani

Ambassador Melanne Verveer coordinates foreign policy issues and activities relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women around the world.

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"So Many Girls! So Little Time!": Behind the Facade of Sex Tourism

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chelsea-Lyn Rudder

Big Apple Oriental Tours, an international sex tourism agency, brazenly flaunts its services on the Internet.

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The Time is Ripe, Let's End Contemporary Slavery

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chelsea-Lyn Rudder

Timeliness is important when confronting a monumental challenge like sex trafficking. However, social change only occurs as a result of an ongoing struggle, and stakeholders cannot sit and wait for the right time.

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Afghan Women and the Media - Is Their Story Being Told?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Melanne Verveer, Afghan Women Leaders Connect, Karl Eikenberry, The Paley Center for Media, Media News, Women in Media and News, Pat Mitchell, Diana Rowan Rockefeller, U.S.-Afghan Women?S Council, U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325, Donna F. Edwads, Ching Eikenberry, Mariam A. Nawabi, Women in Journalism, Kathleen Reen, Nancy Pelosi, Women in Afghanistan, Diane Von Furstenberg Awards, Taliban, Afghanistan, Sadiqa Basiri, U.S. Action Plan for Afghan Women, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

Currently, 660 women comprise the ranks of the 2,000 media professionals in Afghanistan. In 2000, that number was zero.

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My Trip to Washington, DC for International Women's Day

Tory Burch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tory Burch

There are very real reasons to hope and expect that the growing strength of the women's empowerment movement may end the rampant discrimination and exploitation of women in our lifetime.

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The Zeitgeist Has Appeared, and She's Smart

Amb. Swanee Hunt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amb. Swanee Hunt

It's been a week of historic moments for women in the US and around the world.

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