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	<title>Conversations for a Better World &#187; Economic Meltdown &amp; Women</title>
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		<title>In the gender digital divide, women fall behind</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/in-the-gender-digital-divide-women-fall-behind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/in-the-gender-digital-divide-women-fall-behind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>k.sandra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cell Phones & Social Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a division between men and women, not only in terms of pure economics, but also in the realm of technology. Women's lack of technological access is caused by many factors, and it will ultimately hurt them.]]></description>
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		<title>A silent phenomenon spreads HIV</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/crossing-the-crack-lines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Mukondiwa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV & Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What are the real barriers to getting condoms?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the magenta sun sets on the small but sexually charged town, life amongst the  workers becomes visible. Tonight, there may very well be another young woman who will walk into the night a virgin and wake up, hymen intact, but with a new disease to grapple with at the end of it all.]]></description>
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		<title>Ending poverty: our discussion, our vision</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/new-visions-for-the-end-of-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/new-visions-for-the-end-of-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KwasiSelassie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth in humanitarian crises]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=4147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Young people have the talent and creativity to end Poverty. It is our inherited problem, and we must solve it together. The Kwasi Selassie Poverty Discussion is a blog space for young people who want to share possibilities, solutions and experiences in the effort to end poverty across the globe.]]></description>
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		<title>Integration of migration &#8211; embracing the newcomers</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/migration-is-here-to-stay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/migration-is-here-to-stay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Akullu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change and Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth in humanitarian crises]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=4177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Migration has existed, with all its pros and cons, through centuries and centuries. It will likely continue to exist, as it is sometimes totally unavoidable. But how can we make it a fair deal, more bearable in instances where one cannot avoid it or otherwise control it? We can agree to the fact that these migrants can contribute to development!]]></description>
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		<title>How are communities affected when women control their own investments?</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/06/how-are-communities-affected-when-women-control-their-own-investments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/06/how-are-communities-affected-when-women-control-their-own-investments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juke Carolina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money in the Hands of Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=2935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We, at Conversations for a Better World want to know. Please share your projects and best practices around the world. We want to hear about women who are building schools and spearheading micro-credit projects. Planting and harvesting crops. Buying and selling goods. Setting up small businesses and doing it for themselves and their communities.]]></description>
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		<title>Woman or man, only their works will speak</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/03/woman-or-man-only-their-works-will-speak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/03/woman-or-man-only-their-works-will-speak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zoneziwoh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[African women face many constraints and discrimination which affect them economically. Though women with economic power tend to make positive choices for their families and communities, too often they are deprived of the opportunity.]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s status determines world&#8217;s status</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/03/womens-status-determines-worlds-status/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/03/womens-status-determines-worlds-status/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dkbdmn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog post is a response to the post "Invest in women -- it pays!"]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s hard to be rich</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/its-hard-to-be-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/its-hard-to-be-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ida Jeng</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just stumbled upon a very interesting debate on The Economix Blog, a blog by The New York Times. In a time where global experts and scholars seem to disagree about the victims and the spoilers of the financial crisis, I find this piece very thought-provoking.]]></description>
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		<title>Women and poverty: India&#8217;s textile industry</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/women-and-poverty-indias-textile-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/women-and-poverty-indias-textile-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anusha Alikhan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World population]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Around 35 million people are employed through India's textile industry, the majority of the lower tiers being women. Millions of workers are now facing a dramatic drop in wages forcing them below the poverty line. ]]></description>
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		<title>World’s Progress on Maternal Health is Insufficient</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/world%e2%80%99s-progress-on-maternal-health-and-family-planning-is-insufficient/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/world%e2%80%99s-progress-on-maternal-health-and-family-planning-is-insufficient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvaro Serrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://new.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Bank its taking a closer look at the relationship between maternal health and economic progress.  A must-read feature: Reducing maternal mortality by three quarters, and achieving universal access to reproductive health services is one of the Millennium Development Goals the international community set to achieve by 2015 to improve the lives of poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls Count, Women Matter</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/girls-count-women-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/girls-count-women-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill Greer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maternal mortality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://new.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In these turbulent times of financial crisis, rising food prices, climate change and political instability, it is women and girls who will be disproportionately affected, particularly poor women in poor countries. It is girls who will be removed from school because families can no longer afford to pay for them; it is women who will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invest in Women &#8211; it Pays!</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/invest-in-women-it-pays/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/invest-in-women-it-pays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Sheffield</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://new.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the moment the world loses 15 billion dollars every year in productivity that doesn’t happen because mothers and their newborns are dying – one mother a minute, four million newborns every year. A mother’s death always means deeper poverty and hardship for her family and community. It often means an early death for her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capital of Hope</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/capital-of-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/capital-of-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuschman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[empowerment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microfinance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://new.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=123</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Women and children do bear the brunt of economic hardship during any economic downturn. I witnessed this during the course of  2007 and 2008 when I made several trips to Ghana to photographically document a microfinance operation in Pokuase, a small town approximately one hour outside the capital of Accra. Because poverty in the third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graça Machel on Africa &amp; the Financial Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/graca-machel-on-africa-the-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/graca-machel-on-africa-the-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the people who helps me understand the impact of the economic crisis on women is Graca Machel, the passionate advocate for women and children and a former Minister of Education and Culture in Mozambique.  She knows what it&#8217;s like for African households to go hungry; she understands the struggle of African women to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 July 09: World Population Day</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/11-july-09-world-population-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/11-july-09-world-population-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://new.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Investing in Women is a Smart Choice We echo the words of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the Observance of World Population Day: In the midst of the worst global economic crisis in generations, we must find the most effective ways to continue progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. There is no better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women and the Global Economic Tsunami: Who Bears the Pain?</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/women-and-the-global-economic-tsunami-who-bears-the-pain-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/women-and-the-global-economic-tsunami-who-bears-the-pain-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Marshall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://new.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who’s responsible for globalization? Probably a woman called Ug. Ug recognised that the woman in the next cave made better mammoth-skin shoes than she did. She also knew that Mr. Ug threw a pretty hot spear, which meant she had more mammoth skin to work with. So the first trade was made…]]></description>
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