Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

For example, our new report shows that 221 rape cases in Sudan against children have been recorded since 2024 began. Nations like Burkina Faso and Liberia are cutting the share of girls subjected to the practice over the last 30 years by half. An estimated 129 million girls are not in school, globally. But there is hope.

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Senegal Global Support Burkina Faso 88

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2009

The issue includes an interview with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton , an interview with the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a piece about Women and Philanthropy by Lisa Belkin, and an excerpt from Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As many edtech companies benefited from the disruption of the pandemic, attracting wads of cash from investors globally, it did feel like African startups were left out. Well, not anymore: Two-year-old startup uLesson announced today that it closed a $15 million Series B round. The investment, which comes 11 months after uLesson raised a $7.5

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South Africa Africa Nigeria Sierra Leone 95

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APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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Global Fund Interview United States 44