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Women, Girls, Education and Global Health: Interview with Carinne Brody

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When I signed up to participate in the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign, I wasn't sure how I would contribute, but when I connected with Carinne Brody at an International Museum of Women event a couple weeks ago, I knew she would be a wonderful person to talk with us about the connection between girls' education and global health.

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Pangea to unlock diaspora remittances as funding source for African startups

TechCrunch

However, a perspective-shift is required for this to happen and that is why Pangea, working in partnership with Swedish International Development Cooperative Agency and Kenya Diaspora Alliance, has since last year organized a series of events geared towards educating those in the diaspora on why startups are good investment options.

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Strengthening Europe's Role in Advancing Children's Rights

Tech Soup

Originally publised on the GuideStar International Blog. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international convention setting out the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of children. This post comes from executive assistant Janet Yao.

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Meet the women-led web3 startups from Thousand Faces’ demo day

TechCrunch

The demo day coincided with International Women’s Day and featured women-led businesses focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs). The startup has over 20 large-scale devices and 10 small-scale devices producing over 300,000 liters of water monthly to over 2,500 beneficiaries in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.

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Come On, U.S., Give the Kids Their Rights

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According to UNICEF , " The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the first legally binding international instrument to incorporate the full range of human rights — civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights." Only two United Nations member states have not ratified it: Somalia and the United States. Yeah, me too.

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Interview with Shonali Burke: Analytics Tell Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just look at what’s happening in Somalia right now.) So we wanted as much information as possible, for internal dissemination, to share with the Champions, as well as to share in general (for example, this interview), that might help others with their work as well. Given that there are more than 43.3

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Defense Department's lack of willingness to sign onto the international treaty banning landmines. I recently read an excellent book called "The Road to Hell" on the impact of aid, mainly food aid, on destabilizing Somalia. For example, the U.S. is a very large funder of demining efforts through the State Department (and USAID).

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