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Empowering Women and Girls in the Developing World

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Partner:: JANERA
Location:: Norwood Club
New York, NY
Event Date:: 09.21.09
Speakers:: Ann Cotton,; Janera Soerel,; Sheryl WuDunn
Tags:: women; empowerment; girls; gender; developing world

Summary: The New York Times Magazine recently dedicated an entire issue to the global concerns facing women and girls; award-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have been writing about these subjects for years and their book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide was published this week; the Campaign for Female Education (Camfed), a non-profit that fights poverty and AIDS in rural Africa by educating girls and investing in their economic independence, produced the award-winning movie "Where Water Meets the Sky"; and the Clinton Global Initiative is dedicating a panel to "Investing in Women & Girls" on September 23rd.

Join Janera for an intimate conversation between Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn, and Camfed executive director Ann Cotton. The two discuss the issues that women and girls face in the developing world and what we can do to improve their situation.

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Ann Cotton

Following research into the constraints on girls' education in Zimbabwe, Ann Cotton founded CAMFED in 1993. In 2000 she went on to study at the School for Social Entrepreneurs. She has an MA in Human Rights and Education, is an honorary Master of the Open University, sits on the Board of the African Studies Centre and is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Cambridge University.

In 2004 Cotton was named UK Social Entrepreneur of the Year, and in 2005 was awarded both the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and a Beacon Fellowship. In 2006, she received an OBE in honour of her services to girls' education in Africa and in 2007 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge.

Janera Soerel

Janera Soerel is the Founder and Publisher of JANERA.com. Born and raised on Curacao by Surinamese parents, Janera started college at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and finished her undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics. She then obtained a Masters in Monetary Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

Economics degree in hand, Janera Soerel worked in investment banking on cross-border corporate finance deals in Italy and The Netherlands. Realizing that finance was not her life's work, she enrolled at Columbia University, graduating with a dual MBA/MIA degree in business and international affairs.

She subsequently spent time at a communications and branding firm in New York, where she learned about the power of the Web, images, and design. Piles of unread issues of The Economist triggered an idea to create an attractive multimedia, content-driven global community Web site with a unique perspective on global politics and culture, for the mix of urban, educated, global gamechangers.

She launched JANERA.com in 2007.

Sheryl WuDunn

Sheryl WuDunn is an author, lecturer and businesswoman who was the first Asian-American to win a Pulitzer Prize. A specialist in energy and alternative energy issues, she has also been a private wealth advisor with Goldman Sachs and was previously a journalist and editor for The New York Times.

At the Times, she ran the Times' coverage of global energy, alternative energy, foreign technology and foreign industry; previously, she was anchor of The New York Times Page One, a nightly program of the next day's stories in the Times. She also has worked in The New York Times Beijing and Tokyo bureaus, and speaks Chinese and Japanese.

She won the Pulitzer Prize with her husband Nicholas D. Kristof for her reporting from Beijing about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. WuDunn and Kristof were the first married couple ever to receive a Pulitzer for journalism.

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01.: Introduction

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02.: The Story of Angeline

02 min 31 sec

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03.: Beginning of Camfed

03 min 34 sec

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04.: Problems with Teacher Performance

02 min 39 sec

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05.: Moral Challenge of Sexual Victimization

03 min 52 sec

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06.: Millions of Missing Girls and Women

02 min 59 sec

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07.: Commitment to Education

04 min 31 sec

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08.: Protection for Girl Students

04 min 18 sec

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09.: Difficulty for Girls to Stay in Schools

02 min 38 sec

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10.: Q1: How to Get Men Involved

02 min 58 sec

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11.: Q2: Effective Messaging of the Issues

08 min 00 sec

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12.: Q3: How Individuals Can Get Involved

01 min 52 sec

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13.: Q4: Launching a U.S. Based Project Online

05 min 37 sec

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14.: Q5: Educated Mothers Teaching Sons

02 min 21 sec

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15.: Q6: Government Involvement

03 min 35 sec

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16.: Q7: Cultural Issues

07 min 05 sec

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17.: Q8: Equality of Men and Women

03 min 57 sec

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18.: Q9: Progress in China

01 min 32 sec

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19.: Global Nomads Group

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Sheryl WuDunn Fights for Women's Rights

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Journalist Sheryl WuDunn describes her journey from covering the violence in Tiananmen Square to actively fighting the oppression of women around the world.

Her activism was sparked after hearing that "39,000 baby girls die each year before they get to the age of one, simply because they don't get access to healthcare."
Ann Cotton Discovers Progressive Values in Zimbabwe

03 min 14 sec

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Camfed founder Ann Cotton addresses the misconception that there is a "resistance to the education of girls" in developing countries.

Contrary to belief, she has found a "desire for education" in African villages.
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Posted: 10.01.09, 12:09 PM

This is a very important message from Sheryl WuDunn and Ann Cotton on Empowering Women & Girls. The evening was produced by JANERA.com Check out our website to see more of our events.