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The Bride Price: Consequences of Child Marriage Worldwide
A video containing moving images by Stephanie Sinclair on the many issues of child marriage.
Foreign Policy Runs ICRW's Letter to the Editor
President's letter deals with how there is no cheap fix for realizing gender equality.
ICRW Engages Republican Presidential Candidates on Gender, AIDS
ICRW used the CNN/YouTube debate to engage Republican candidates on issues important to women and girls around the world.
Staff posed three questions to the candidates on the AIDS epidemic, women and girls' unique development needs and gender-based violence.
The Gender Gap is Still Open
ICRW's Kirrin Gill participated in a recent segment for Voice of America about the world's gender gap. Gill discusses the clear link between women's health and the level of a nation's economic development.
ICRW Published in The Lancet
“Women Deliver for Development,” appeared in a special edition of The Lancet.
The article - written by ICRW - focuses on the need for maternal health to be viewed as an important factor in international development.
ICRW Engages Presidential Candidates on Gender and AIDS
ICRW used the recent CNN/YouTube debate, which aired July 23 from Charleston, S.C., to engage the Democratic candidates in issues that are important to women and girls around the world.
We submitted three questions to the candidates asking how they would approach the AIDS epidemic, and how they would address the specific vulnerabilities of women and girls.
Worldview of Chicago's Public Radio
Worldview of Chicago's Public Radio interview students who participated in ICRW's Week of Action to help stop child marriage in Mali.
Washington Business Journal Honors ICRW President
On Nov. 28, ICRW President Geeta Rao Gupta, received this year's Washington Business Journal's “Women Who Mean Business” award.
In a brief video segment, filmed on location from the awards ceremony, Rao Gupta explains why ICRW is not your typical “think tank,” but rather a "do tank."
Moving on Up:
ICRW has Moved
Our new office is located at:
1120 20th St. N.W. Suite 500 North
Washington, D.C. 20036.
Our phone numbers and e-mail addresses have not changed.
Revised Stigma Toolkit Now Available
ICRW, the Academy for Educational Development and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance released a revised stigma reduction toolkit to help fight HIV- and AIDS-related stigma.
The toolkit is used to facilitate discussion about the rights of positive persons and issues around gender, sexuality and morality.
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Special Events
March 5, 2008:
ICRW 2008 Gala Champions for Change
Past Events
Feb. 28, 2008:
Insight to Action: The Bride Price
ICRW hosted photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair to talk in-depth about her photo exhibit, The Bride Price, and what ICRW has learned about how to change the practice of marrying girls too young.
Nov. 29, 2007:
Women Who Mean Business
ICRW President Geeta Rao Gupta to be honored at the Washington Business Journal's fourth annual Women Who Mean Business awards.
Learn more.
Read the press release.
Oct. 22, 2007:
Irene Tinker Lecture
Special guest Soukeina Bouraoui, executive director of the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research
Oct. 18-20:
Women Deliver Global Conference
Oct. 18:
World Bank Special Session Addresses Improving Maternal Health to Boost Economic Growth
2007 Gala: Champions for Change
See photos and read about the 2007 gala.
2006 Gala: Power of Partnerships
See photos and read about the 2006 gala.