Archive for March 2012
GWWI Women and Water on Wednesdays: Celebrating GWWI Water Champions on International Women’s Day
GWWI Women &Water training 2008 with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai Tomorrow is International Women’s Day and we here at the Global Women’s Water Initiative can’t imagine a better way to celebrate than to highlight the work of the GWWI grassroots teams and Fellows! It has been 9 months since the GWWI East African year long…
Read MoreKing Peggy : A Royal Example
By Maame Yelbert Obeng , Africa Program Director at WEA This past thursday night-February 23rd, as I was flipping through the TV channels, I stumbled across a program with Tavis Smiley on PBS. I was immediately attracted to the program just from the clothing of the guest on Tavis’ show and the accent seemed quite familiar—the guest…
Read MoreDenying Justice: The endless fight of the Lubicon Cree
For over a century the Lubicon Cree people of northern Alberta, Canada, have been fighting against the Canadian government to protect the 10,000 square kilometers of forests, plains, rivers and muskeg, or wetlands, they call home. Treaties have been signed and violated, construction of extractive industry manufacturing plants have invaded the territory, and millions of…
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