Podcast appearances and mentions of Kavita N Ramdas

This week, in her first appearance since fleeing Brazil, women's rights advocate Debora Diniz joins fellow activists and philanthropists to discuss what works and what doesn't in stopping violence against women and girls.  Music featured:“Cause I'm a Woman” by Muted Soul Featuring Jess King courtesy of Muted Records.Guests:  Debora Diniz,Deputy Director of Rights and Justice;  Terry McGovern,Chair of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Medical Center;  Kavita N. Ramdas,  Director of Women's Rights Program, Open Society Foundations.Help us reach our goal of 100 patrons by year end, by becoming a member today at https://LauraFlanders.org/donate.

Gender-based violence – why are states so bad at making it stop? This week, in her first appearance since fleeing Brazil, women's rights advocate Debora Diniz joins fellow activists and philanthropists to discuss what works and what doesn't in stopping violence against women and girls. Music featured:“Cause I'm a Woman” by Muted Soul Featuring Jess King courtesy of Muted Records.GUESTS: Debora Diniz, Deputy Director of Rights and Justice; Terry McGovern, Chair of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Medical Center; Kavita N. Ramdas, Director of Women's Rights Program, Open Society Foundations.Support theLFShow for as little as $2 a month!

Kavita N. Ramdas provides leadership and direction for the largest grantmaking foundation in the world focused exclusively on supporting international women’s human rights. During Ramdas’ tenure, Global Fund assets have increased from $6 million to $21 million. Grantmaking has risen to more than $8 million per year, and the number of countries in which the Global Fund has made grants has nearly tripled. Ramdas has also overseen the Global Fund’s first ever endowment campaign and the creation of the groundbreaking Now or Never Fund to ensure women’s participation on critical international issues.

The global community faces new challenges and needs to be able to imagine a truly diverse and multi-polar world in which shared leadership is the norm. Kavita N. Ramdas, President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, discusses how we can look to the women’s movement globally as a source of innovation and inspiration that offers tangible examples to address the most pressing issues of our time. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 19390]

The global community faces new challenges and needs to be able to imagine a truly diverse and multi-polar world in which shared leadership is the norm. Kavita N. Ramdas, President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, discusses how we can look to the women’s movement globally as a source of innovation and inspiration that offers tangible examples to address the most pressing issues of our time. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 19390]

The global community faces new challenges and needs to be able to imagine a truly diverse and multi-polar world in which shared leadership is the norm. Kavita N. Ramdas, President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, discusses how we can look to the women's movement globally as a source of innovation and inspiration that offers tangible examples to address the most pressing issues of our time. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 19390]

Theme: women and philanthropy, media. Highlights: A talk by Kavita Ramdas, head of the San Francisco-based Global Fund for Women; Jill Freeberg on the women in Oaxaca occupying a Mexican government owned radio and TV station and broadcasting their own voices over the air for two weeks. As head of the San Francisco Global Fund for Women, the world’s largest grant making foundation exclusively devoted to advancing women’s rights, Kavita N. Ramdas elaborates on the work her organization does with women’s organizations and poor women around the world in a recent talk at the Global Affairs Council. Next, we talk to filmmaker Jill Freeberg about the women in Oaxaca who have been occupying a Mexican government owned radio and TV station and broadcasting their own voices over the air for over two weeks. The post Women's Magazine – August 21, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.