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		<title>Ecofeminism and the right to water</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/10/ecofeminism-and-the-right-to-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging for Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the right to water and the right of water may seem to be the same thing to many people, the two are extremely different.  I recently had the opportunity to attend a conference on the right to water, where the intersections of these two issues were discussed. The right to water is the idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A gender crisis, a global opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/10/a-gender-crisis-a-global-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JGreenblatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may be woman, but I can’t hear you roar. In fact, I can’t hear you at all. Maybe it is because you don’t really have time.  No one can blame you. But maybe if you, and the hundreds of millions of women across the developing world trapped in similar situations, weren’t forced to waste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A forgotten glass ceiling: a safe drink of water</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/10/a-forgotten-glass-ceiling-a-safe-drink-of-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JSauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging for Water]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a photograph that travelers inevitably take when they go to a developing country &#8212; a picture of a woman carrying a large container of water on her head. The woman&#8217;s posture is ramrod straight, the envy of runway models everywhere, and her face rarely betrays the amount of effort and strength this task [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa&#8217;s hunger hardships spur biotech debate</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/africas-hunger-hardships-spur-biotech-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/africas-hunger-hardships-spur-biotech-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juhie Bhatia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggers Unite!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=4816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post was commissioned as part of a Pulitzer Center/Global Voices Online series on Food Insecurity that draw on multimedia reporting featured on the Pulitzer Gateway to Food Insecurity. Share your own story here. Sunset over farmland in South Africa by Irene2005 on Flickr While there have been significant increases in agricultural productivity in Asia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing countries must reform domestic violence laws to meet the MDGs</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/developing-countries-must-reform-domestic-violence-laws-to-meet-the-mdgs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/developing-countries-must-reform-domestic-violence-laws-to-meet-the-mdgs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kabukabu Ikwueme</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggers Unite!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Violence Against Women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the purpose of government, if not to safeguard the rights of its citizens? Many people working with victims of domestic violence in developing countries will agree that the law often does not offer adequate protection to victims. Our Goal of Gender Equality (MDG3) will never be reached if we do not address this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A poem for my five sisters</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/a-poem-for-my-five-sisters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/a-poem-for-my-five-sisters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Lopez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maternal death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maternal health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Lopez is one of the artists of MDGfive.com, a website that harnesses the power of art and social media to increase community engagement in the fight to improve maternal health and reach Millennium Development Goal 5 by 2015. In this video Frank Lopez uses his creative talents to talk about his five sisters, pregnancy, love and maternal health.]]></description>
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		<title>Spoken word for maternal health</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/spoken-word-for-maternal-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/spoken-word-for-maternal-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SeanB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggers Unite!]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maternal death]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=4482</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Word! Sean B is one of the artists of MDGfive.com, a website that harnesses the power of art and social media to increase community engagement in the fight to improve maternal health and reach Millennium Development Goal 5 by 2015. In this video Sean B uses his creative talents to address maternal health. Take it away, Sean B. ]]></description>
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		<title>More than a right: the pill hits 50</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/05/more-than-a-right-the-pill-hits-50/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/05/more-than-a-right-the-pill-hits-50/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 16:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Leidl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Let's talk about the Pill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birth control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth controll pill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=2841</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Women who want access to contraception but are denied that right suffer illness, loss of quality of life, and even death. Let's ensure that all women have that right.]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of the mobile phone to developing countries</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/05/the-importance-of-the-mobile-phone-to-developing-countries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/05/the-importance-of-the-mobile-phone-to-developing-countries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 14:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Vendel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cell Phones & Social Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Internet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=2799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What's the best way to make sure people in the developing world are connected to today's technology? Cell phones, not computers, are the answer.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Myths and realities about women and mobile phones</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/05/myths-and-realities-about-women-and-mobile-phones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/05/myths-and-realities-about-women-and-mobile-phones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 21:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnneryanHeatwole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cell Phones & Social Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender role]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=2809</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many think that mobile phones are an easy way to bring technology to developing countries. But are they really having the impact that people claim they are?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Join the competition &#8220;Let&#8217;s talk about the Pill&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/05/join-the-competition-talk-about-the-pill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/05/join-the-competition-talk-about-the-pill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 20:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ida Jeng</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Let's talk about the Pill]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=2661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We, at Conversations for  a Better World, are happy to announce the competition "Talk about the Pill". This is a call for your best and brightest ideas. ]]></description>
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		<title>Doing your part as a woman for climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/doing-your-part-as-a-woman-for-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/doing-your-part-as-a-woman-for-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonam Ongmo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change and Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=1588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What connection does finishing the food on your plate in New York, saving the water and the energy here, have to children and women in third world countries? Many.]]></description>
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		<title>Let the champions be champions</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/let-the-champions-be-champions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/let-the-champions-be-champions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Bernhardtz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change and Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=1477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, we simply cannot exclude such a large group of people, if we are serious in our ambitions to turn the tide. Not tapping into the resource of young people is foolish. Secondly, young people will always be the best experts on youth.]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t ignore half of humanity in the climate-change debate</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/don%e2%80%99t-ignore-half-of-humanity-out-in-the-climate-change-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/don%e2%80%99t-ignore-half-of-humanity-out-in-the-climate-change-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kollodge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change and Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greenhouse gas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=1422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While everyone’s talking about carbon credits and technological solutions to climate change, no one’s talking about the people who are going to be affected most: women.]]></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>
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		<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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