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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In celebration of the highly anticipated Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide broadcast event, Independent Television Service (ITVS)'s Women and Girls Lead campaign in partnership with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Show of Force Productions will present luncheon on September 11 at 12 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The event will highlight the role public...
NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Games for Change, the leading global advocate for supporting and making games for social good, announced today that Intel Corporation has come on board as a partner for Half the Sky Movement: The Game set to launch on Facebook on November 13, 2012. "Intel's support comes at a great time prior to our launch of Half the Sky Movement: The Game," say Co-Presidents Asi Burak and Michelle Byrd. "This Facebook game seeks to connect the power of...
HARTFORD, Conn., March 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is recognizing the 200th birthday of its namesake by honoring Half the Sky authors Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn with the inaugural Stowe Prize. Developed in honor of Harriet Beecher Stowe and the impact she made with Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Stowe Prize recognizes writing that targets social justice issues. Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, changed how Americans thought about slavery in the mid-1800s,...
"Half the Sky" highlights the 'stunning difference' made by Tostan in massive movement to end female genital cutting in West Africa NEW YORK, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is proud to congratulate its grantee Tostan, which is the focus of a chapter in acclaimed journalist Nicholas Kristof's and author Sheryl WuDunn's upcoming book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Over the course of two decades, Senegal-based...
BEIJING -- A New York Times columnist has created Chinese-language blogs on two of China's most popular Web portals to test the limits of the Internet in China -- but one of them could not be accessed on Wednesday. In new blogs on Sohu and Sina, Nicholas Kristof denounced the imprisonment of his Chinese colleague, Zhao Yan, and called for President Hu Jintao to set an example in the fight against corruption by disclosing his financial assets.He also mentioned Falun Gong, a spiritual...
