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Expert Panel Addresses the Power of Innovation in Women’s Lives
As part of its annual celebration of International Women’s Day, ICRW on March 8 convened a panel of experts to discuss how social and technological innovations can empower women and achieve gender equality.
The basis of the discussion was an ICRW study, Innovation for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality, that demonstrates how cutting-edge ideas – everything from a foot-pedaled water pump to birth control pills – can be game-changers for women’s lives.
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The Power to Empower: Leveraging Innovation to Transform Women’s Lives: A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ICRW event at the 54th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Women Tools Technology: Building Opportunities & Economic Power Competition: An innovative, global competition that aims to identify transformative solutions for promoting women’s economic advancement.
ICRW Celebrates International Women's Day - Slide Show
ICRW marked International Women’s Day with a panel discussion on how social and technological innovation can empower women and help achieve gender equality, followed by the Champions for Change Cocktail Reception that honored MTV Networks International’s Bill Roedy.
ICRW Launches Cricket Campaign to Help End Domestic Violence
ICRW and CARE India Share Results from HIV Prevention Project with Sex Workers
Indian President Releases ICRW and Partner Evaluation of Anti-Domestic Violence Law
Expanding Stigma-Reduction Strategies to Strengthen HIV Programs: The Case of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission
ICRW’s Laura Nyblade and Cathy Zimmerman of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will present new findings that estimate the potential impact of stigma on prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs. Findings suggest one-third to one-half of mother-to-child transmission may be attributed to stigma. The presenters also will discuss the facilitators and barriers to expanding the response to stigma.
When: March 31, 2010
12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Where: ICRW, 1120 20th Street N.W., Suite 500 North
Washington, D.C. 20036
RSVP to Traci Eckhaus at teckhaus@icrw.org or call 202.742.1259
